Re: [whatwg] Preventing wake lock leaks with DOM nodes

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:
> The reason I didn't make it a boolean was because of the IPC involved and because I wanted to support multiple types of locks without needing to add new attributes in the future (and if we need to add the complex stuff later).

What's the problem with adding more attributes in the future?

That said, I do think that a "timeout" for screen locks make sense, so
a boolean wouldn't work. Though not as a timeout for when to release
the lock, but rather as a "minimum time I'd like to keep the screen
awake" as described at

http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-August/297423.html

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:21:54 UTC