- From: Lukasz Olejnik via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:15:06 +0000
- To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
> So would you ask the user for permission to use a gyroscope despite them not having any? My understanding is it's an API call. An API fenced behind a permission mechanism. It doesn't matter what happens behind the scenes after the API is called. Consider an operating system enforcing OS permissions for apps wishing to access the underlying hardware sensor. What happens if a particular browser does not have an OS-level permission to access a particular sensor? >From a website perspective, this sensor is not providing any data. So the website has a permission to access the API, but it so happens that the API is simply not returning much (because the browser cannot access a particular sensor). -- GitHub Notification of comment by lknik Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/145#issuecomment-260668227 using your GitHub account
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