Re: [sensors] Should we request permission when sensor is not supported by the platform?

I agree there is a room for good design here. Any suggestion (food for
 thought) welcome.

>   there's no point asking a user for the permission to access a 
sensor you know they do not have,
  
Correct, can we defer it to the implementor? This sounds like a 
browser issue ("not prompting when it's not necessary", e.g. returning
 'denied' after some random delay), so can we just provide a 
non-normative suggestion?

> it might be useful to explain to a user that they're forgoing some 
features by denying permission to access a sensor. It's impossible to 
do that if you can't distinguish between permission denied and missing
 hardware.

Again, sounds like a browser item? At the spec level: (1) ask for 
permission (2) then check for a flag marking if a sensor exists (or 
"works"), or error out even - but after point (1). 


> it's good to advise a user that they're sensor got disconnected or 
is suddenly no longer working, it's useless to tell them this if they 
actually revoked access.

A webapp can still provide information that "this app works better 
with sensor X enabled". 

I understand and agree with your timeout comment ;)


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