- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:38:57 +1100
- To: public-device-apis@w3.org
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, at 8:35, Marcos Caceres wrote: > Hi, > So, I'm still not sure how we should proceed with the Net Info stuff. On > the Mozilla side, we are keen to at least put forward a new spec. > However, we don't want to waste anyone's time (including our own) doing > that unless other implementers think this is worth while. > > I guess if we don't hear anything within the next week or two we will > shelve the idea. Hi, There is some interest in Chromium/Blink to implement something similar to NetInfo [1] [2]. However, this is still controversial and even in the Chromium/Blink community, it is not clear that there is much consensus regarding how to tackle that problem. Mozilla's new proposal is basically NetInfo v1 with a change event (surprising that NetInfo v1 didn't had one...). The proposal sent to blink-dev [2] is actually not that different. However, it is not clear that this will be implemented for the Web Platform. As mentioned in [1] this proposal is to implement the feature in Blink for Chrome Apps only to start with. For what I understand, no one likes the current specification (even Mozilla who first pushed for it) but I do not see a serious counter proposal that everybody is happy with. I would recommend that we shelve the current specification. If Mozilla and Chromium ends up implementing something similar and have good feedback, I am pretty sure that someone will step up to write a new specification but I am not really seeing that happening in a near future so I would not recommend to work on another specification before we get a clear and strong consensus behind it. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/R5yYtHEPiw4/HFQxExIiQ1oJ [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh3uqyiCntp38jDcoECvKLyy0F1UIZPFafI2N910IQI/edit Cheers, -- Mounir
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