- From: Anssi Kostiainen via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:55:01 +0000
- To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
@Symbitic thanks for sharing these use cases and proposed solutions. As you probably noticed, there hasn't been progress on this issue lately. However, the fact that this issue is open means the group might resume this work. In the web standards land 10 years is not a long time, for better or worse. As you implied, the group has indeed been focusing on browser as an implementation target thus more advanced features that do not cater to mainstream have not made it to the spec and implementations. The Generic Sensor API is extensible by design and allows, for example, instantiation of multiple sensors of the same type, or plugging in a discovery mechanism later. This differentiates it from legacy sensor APIs that came before it. We saw a need for these more advanced features, so wanted to offer a future-proof API. Certain browser vendors are still with the legacy sensor APIs, so it is beneficial to get everyone on board with the new baseline first before expanding the scope further. That said, if you plan to do prototyping in the space of sensor discovery, we'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to drop pointers to this issue to your experiments. Thanks for your contributions! -- GitHub Notification of comment by anssiko Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/7#issuecomment-1833940213 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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