Re: Application zone

Even running on a tablet, is it a valid use-case to be able to access
a specific zone: to move your seat in the vehicle?  The alternative
possibility is absent this API, seat control would be more generic.
You would see all seats, and then pick yours.

-Kevron

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Vadim Draluk <vadim@draluk.net> wrote:
> Then I'd think about doing it differently. Zones only apply to in-vehicle
> functionality. While RSI is a theoretical possibility, I do not see it going
> anywhere, and instead replaced by off-the-shelf tablets and phones
>
> So an API that IMO would make more sense would actually ask a more general
> question about environment the app is running within. The nomenclature of
> such environment is not entirely obvious (e.g. we probably should
> differentiate between underlying HW and OS, as well as between
> projection-mode apps and apps using mobile's screen), so would probably
> require some extra thinking
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Rees, Kevron" <kevron.m.rees@intel.com>
> To: Vadim Draluk <vadim@draluk.net>
> Cc: "public-autowebplatform@w3.org" <public-autowebplatform@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Application zone
>
> right.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Vadim Draluk <vadim@draluk.net> wrote:
>> Is it to tell whether it's running in the head unit or RSI?
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "Rees, Kevron" <kevron.m.rees@intel.com>
>> To: "public-autowebplatform@w3.org" <public-autowebplatform@w3.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:50 PM
>> Subject: Application zone
>>
>> Applications need a way of understanding which zone they are in so
>> that they can access data from their zone.  I propose adding a method
>> either to the Zone or to Vehicle interface that allows the application
>> to discover which zone the application is running in:
>>
>>
>> partial interface Zone {
>>  Zone getApplicationZone();
>> }
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -Kevron
>>
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Received on Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:28:05 UTC