- From: Josh Soref <jsoref@rim.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:03:15 +0000
- To: Core Mobile <public-coremob@w3.org>
Robert wrote: > 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/ Tobie wrote: > 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. I've been advocating this for a while. The only way to determine how good your connection to a server is, is to connect to the server and see how it performs. I'd love to have a document that I could point people to which explains that. Outlining various ways in which other things don't work (misleading local links - WiFi hotspots, interesting remote links - great firewall of China, mixed links - VPNs, special bandwidth classes - 0.facebook.com, cached content), and explaining how one can get useful information for various classes (<video>, <audio>, Progress Events, XHR, WS:). --------------------------------------------------------------------- This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful.
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