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Re: renaming enableHighAccuracy

From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:18:21 +0100
Message-ID: <708552fb0904010918g2d57aa86u4aebea4914fdd86@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Allan Thomson (althomso)" <althomso@cisco.com>
Cc: Angel Machín <angel.machin@gmail.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org> 
2009/4/1 Allan Thomson (althomso) <althomso@cisco.com>:
>
> For me, a user (or the applications they use) will have no way of knowing whether GPS vs Wifi vs 3G is more or less power on their device.
>

I agree and this is exactly why we don't have a "useGps/useWifi/use3G"
setting. We have a simple flag that expresses the app's requirement
(low power, please) and the implementation makes the decision.

Andrei
Received on Wednesday, 1 April 2009 16:18:59 GMT

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