RE: ACTION-357: Network Connection API draft

Thanks for the use cases, but the question is do you see the Web App
working simultaneously with both connections? For e.g. will the app work
with two open connections in parallel or use one connection at a time
regardless of the number of active connections. If it is the later my
feeling is that the current API suffices because we say use the term
'current' connection which means the Web App can always get the handle
to the current connection.

 

Regards,

Suresh

 

From: Tran, Dzung D [mailto:dzung.d.tran@intel.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:15 AM
To: Suresh Chitturi; public-device-apis@w3.org
Subject: RE: ACTION-357: Network Connection API draft

 

Hello,

 

There are a couple of use cases that I can think of which are:

1)      Tethering: Using your WiFi for SoftAP and 3G as your data
connection

2)      WiFi-direct: Using your 3G for your data connection while doing
peer to peer over WiFi to another device.  WiFi-direct is coming as in
the following spec: http://www.wi-fi.org/Wi-Fi_Direct.php

 

Thanks

Dzung

 

From: Suresh Chitturi [mailto:schitturi@rim.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 3:28 PM
To: Tran, Dzung D; public-device-apis@w3.org
Subject: RE: ACTION-357: Network Connection API draft

 

Hi Dzung,

 

Thanks for your feedback.

You are right, this API only supports one connection. I have been
thinking about the usefulness of multiple connections but in practice
isn't it that the developer/user would only be interested in the
'current' connection type that is being used by the application as
opposed to knowing that multiple connections exist e.g. "what is my
current connection type"? If you are saying that multiple connections
would be used simultaneously by the same web app then it makes sense to
consider this in the API.

 

Regards,

Suresh

 

From: Tran, Dzung D [mailto:dzung.d.tran@intel.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 10:37 AM
To: Suresh Chitturi; public-device-apis@w3.org
Subject: RE: ACTION-357: Network Connection API draft

 

Suresh,

 

>From this API, basically there is just Connection Type and it is up to
the user to determine connection speed from the type. This seems
reasonable enough, beside in some cases I think you might get multiple
connections such as 3G and WiFi or Ethernet simultaneously. 

 

Thanks
Dzung Tran

 

From: public-device-apis-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-device-apis-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Suresh Chitturi
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 11:47 AM
To: public-device-apis@w3.org
Subject: ACTION-357: Network Connection API draft

 

Hi all,

 

As per my ACTION-357, please find attached a draft spec for Network Info
API.

As discussed during the F2F, the proposed draft is just a formalization
of the proposal from [1] with minor changes.

 

Let me know if you have any comments, before we begin to advance this
further.

 

[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2010Oct/0076.html

 

Regards,

Suresh

PS: I am yet to set up my cvs account, and therefore not able to
check-in to cvs.

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