Re: The Device API

navigator has the legacy / "no more globals" appeal, but in todays world
feels very very wrong.

We are a web platform now, not a navigator ;)

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Brian LeRoux <brian@westcoastlogic.com>wrote:

> Of possible interest, for the moment, PhoneGap implements device as a
> global. With the following (documented) API:
>
> http://docs.phonegap.com/docs/device
>
> device.platform
> device.name
> device.version
> device.uuid
>
> Additionally we *just* added an event to the window called
> 'deviceReady' so that code can know when all the API's have been
> initialized.
>
> window.addEventListener('deviceRead', function(e) { /* you get the idea */
> });
>
> We are open to moving it under navigator but that sparked a fair
> amount of debate so we've opted to solve with patience. ;)
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@robineko.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we're seeing APIs surfacing that rely on navigator.device; but that isn't
> specified.
> >
> > Some of you might recall this:
> >
> >  http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/device/
> >
> > Reusing it, Capture could simply be declared as Supplemental, and then
> have "Device implements Capture" (if my WebIDL is up to date, which I have
> to double check here).
> >
> > We could very easily release this document, there isn't much to it.
> >
> > --
> > Robin Berjon
> >  robineko — hired gun, higher standards
> >  http://robineko.com/
> >
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