- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:08:00 -0700
- To: "Richard L. Barnes" <rbarnes@bbn.com>
- Cc: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
To quote: The rotationRate property must provide the rate of rotation of the hosting device in space. It must be expressed as the rate of change of the angles of the defined in section 4.1 and must be expressed in deg/s. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Richard L. Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote: > I'm presuming there's a time unit here somewhere? degrees/sec? > --Richard > > On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Doug Turner wrote: > >> based on that, degrees are fine. >> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 28/06/2011, at 6:13 AM, Doug Turner wrote: >>> >>>>>> Also radians instead >>>>>> of degrees? >>>>> >>>>> The alpha beta gamma angles are in degrees. >>>>> >>>>> Dean >>>> >>>> right, should have been more clear. Why aren't we using radians everywhere? >>> >>> W3C specs, for better or worse, tend to use degrees over radians. I'd typically not mind moving to radians, except there are a few shipping implementations now that used degrees and there is no easy way for developers to notice a change. >>> >>> Dean >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >
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