Re: [vibration] Preliminary thoughts on the vibrator spec

On 11.11.2011, at 23.16, ext Justin Lebar wrote:

>> An implementation should be allowed to disable vibration in any way if it wants to for security or privacy reasons.
> 
> Jonas> I think "is" would be more correct than "should be".
> 
> This is still too restrictive.  An implementation may also disable
> vibration just because the user asked.  Also, I don't know what it
> means to disable vibration "in any way."
> 
> How about we add a step to the algorithm, between steps 8 and 9:
> 
> "9) An implementation may abort the algorithm at this point.
> 
> "Non-normative note: For example, an implementation might abort the
> algorithm because the user has set a preference indicating that pages
> at a given origin should never be able to vibrate the page, or an
> implementation might cap the total amount of time a page may cause the
> device to vibrate and reject requests in excess of this limit."

This looks good to me. I added the step and the non-normative note you proposed to the spec.

Thanks!

-Anssi

Received on Monday, 14 November 2011 13:38:53 UTC