Re: Ambient Light Sensor landed in Chromium

> On 03 Nov 2016, at 18:18, Kostiainen, Anssi <anssi.kostiainen@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm happy to announce the Generic Sensor Framework-based Ambient Light Sensor (https://w3c.github.io/ambient-light/) Chromium implementation for all platforms (Android, Win, Mac, Chrome OS, Linux) just landed in trunk (https://crbug.com/606766).
> 
> The API will be in Chrome Canary behind the "generic-sensor" flag starting tomorrow, and web developers can start to play with the API and provide us feedback that will help inform the spec development.

The Chrome Canary release with the Ambient Light Sensor is now out.

Here's how to experiment:

1) Get Chrome Canary at:

   https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

2) Enable the API by navigating to:

   chrome://flags/#enable-generic-sensor

3) Experiment with the API, and let us know your feedback at:

   https://github.com/w3c/ambient-light/issues

> The Permissions API integration is work-in-progress and will land soon.
> 
> Congrats to the Chromium contributors Alexander, Mikhail, Rijubrata, Alexis, and Maksim for this milestone!

Thanks,

-Anssi

Received on Friday, 4 November 2016 12:31:13 UTC