- From: Kerrick Long via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:11:58 +0000
- To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
> Browser vendors use the State of HTML survey results as important input into their feature prioritization. As a web developer, you can help by heading over to https://stateofhtml.com/ and taking the survey. For this background geolocation feature specifically, in the "Native-like Web Apps" part of the survey there's a "What are your biggest pain points around making web apps that feel native?" section where you can voice your support for this feature. Thank you! 👍 This survey is closed, so I now have nowhere better than here to voice my support for this feature. # 📢 I support background geotracking! And for good measure, my use case follows. I'm in the beginning stages of making a web application that allows farmers to track their work, inventory, and finances. A big part of tracking their work is getting an exact map of a field, or an exact path taken to plow, till, harvest, or otherwise work the field. For the former, it's often easier to drive the fence line than to point-and-click to draw a complex shape. For the latter, geotracking is the only practical way. For both, the farmer cannot possibly be expected to keep their phone screen unlocked! Not only is battery life a serious concern, but plenty of tractors don't have cabs or a place to mount a phone. Work gloves also make fiddling with an unlocked phone impractical, farm work is two-handed so they can't be expected to hold it, and a pocket is no place for an unlocked phone. This isn't just about screen lock, either. It needs to work when the app is in the background. Plenty of music and audiobooks are listened to on a tractor seat. Phone calls are also huge, because they can be answered hands-free--removing our app from the foreground without the user realizing it. We can't expect them to _only_ have our app in the foreground. Without (permission-gated, user-aware, privacy-friendly) background geotracking on the web (or at least PWAs), I will have to create and distribute a native mobile app for this one killer feature, where the rest of the app could gladly live on the web. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Kerrick Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-sensor/issues/22#issuecomment-2606068258 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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