- From: Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:35:37 +0000
- To: Robert Shilston <robert.shilston@ft.com>, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- CC: "public-coremob@w3.org" <public-coremob@w3.org>, Hidetoshi Yokota <yokota@kddilabs.jp>
On 1/3/13 6:14 PM, "Tobie Langel" <tobie@fb.com> 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. Addressed this issue in: https://github.com/coremob/coremob-2012/commit/0ca0b524. --tobie
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