- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:09:53 +0000
- To: public-coremob@w3.org
On 03/01/13 17:14, Tobie Langel wrote: > On 1/3/13 5:58 PM, "Robert Shilston" <robert.shilston@ft.com> wrote: > >> On 2 Jan 2013, at 16:24, Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> >> >> On 29/12/12 09:50, Hidetoshi Yokota wrote: >> >>From the above observation, is it possible to add a new requirement like >> >> below at this point in time? >> >> >> >> Req.X: User Agent SHOULD be able to obtain the information of the >> >> network, to which it attaches (e.g., connectivity or nominal capability) >> >> and it is RECOMMENDED to select an appropriate network when available. >> >> >> >> Related WGs: Device APIs WG, System Applications WG >> >> >> >> Please enlighten me if this kind of discussion has already been done and >> >> concluded. >> >> >> >> This has been discussed in DAP and there are privacy and fingerprinting >> concerns. Given DAP is focusing on the browser scope and it is too scary >> to provide such an API to all contents, it might be possible to have >> this done in SysApps but it will very likely be behind some kind of >> permission. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Mounir >> >> >> I feel that the network information, whilst it could be made available, >> is sufficiently likely to be misleading as to be unwise to be used by >> developers. The only way to establish the connection quality is to >> connect to the server you want to speak to. We've written more about the >> challenges of network state information at >> http://labs.ft.com/2012/08/navigator-online-here-be-dragons/ >> Rob > > I'm sympathetic to the issue but the Network Info API is clearly the wrong > way of looking at it, imho. I wrote more about this on the DAP mailing > list recently[1]. If something along these lines (and also much shorter) > would gather consensus, I'll happily add it to the doc. > > --tobie Robert and Tobie, I am not sure why you are commenting that Network Information API isn't the solution for that use case. Did any one said that Network Information API was the solution? -- Mounir
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