- From: Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:37:24 +0000
- To: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>, "public-coremob@w3.org" <public-coremob@w3.org>
On 1/3/13 7:09 PM, "Mounir Lamouri" <mounir@lamouri.fr> wrote: >On 03/01/13 17:14, Tobie Langel wrote: >> On 1/3/13 5:58 PM, "Robert Shilston" <robert.shilston@ft.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2 Jan 2013, at 16:24, Mounir Lamouri wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 29/12/12 09:50, Hidetoshi Yokota wrote: >>> >>>From the above observation, is it possible to add a new requirement like >>> >>> below at this point in time? >>> >>> >>> >>> Req.X: User Agent SHOULD be able to obtain the information of the >>> >>> network, to which it attaches (e.g., connectivity or nominal >>>capability) >>> >>> and it is RECOMMENDED to select an appropriate network when available. >>> >>> >>> >>> Related WGs: Device APIs WG, System Applications WG >>> >>> >>> >>> Please enlighten me if this kind of discussion has already been done >>>and >>> >>> concluded. >>> >>> >>> >>> This has been discussed in DAP and there are privacy and fingerprinting >>> concerns. Given DAP is focusing on the browser scope and it is too >>>scary >>> to provide such an API to all contents, it might be possible to have >>> this done in SysApps but it will very likely be behind some kind of >>> permission. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- >>> Mounir >>> >>> >>> I feel that the network information, whilst it could be made available, >>> is sufficiently likely to be misleading as to be unwise to be used by >>> developers. The only way to establish the connection quality is to >>> connect to the server you want to speak to. We've written more about >>>the >>> challenges of network state information at >>> http://labs.ft.com/2012/08/navigator-online-here-be-dragons/ >>> Rob >> >> I'm sympathetic to the issue but the Network Info API is clearly the >>wrong >> way of looking at it, imho. I wrote more about this on the DAP mailing >> list recently[1]. If something along these lines (and also much shorter) >> would gather consensus, I'll happily add it to the doc. >> >> --tobie > >Robert and Tobie, I am not sure why you are commenting that Network >Information API isn't the solution for that use case. Did any one said >that Network Information API was the solution? Heh. Good point. --tobie
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