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Re: [screen-wake-lock] Be able to query if there are any screen wake-lock object active for the current page (#273)

From: Marcos Cáceres via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 06:24:29 +0000
To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-894033099-1628231067-sysbot+gh@w3.org>
> I don't see how query() would be a fingerprinting vector if it only returns whether there is a wake lock active for the current page.

Sorry, you are right. I misunderstood the initial request as querying the system's wake lock state for the document, rather than "has the API been used to hold a wake lock and is it holding one now because of it?"

My current feeling is that I think we should leave it to user land code to coordinate that and not expose this. Somewhat annoying, but the the page itself could effectively do its own reference counting; so long as the spec guarantees to always notify of "release", even when the document gets restored from bfcache or similar. 


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