Re: Battery Status API Last Call Feedback ( LC-2574)

 Dear Anne van Kesteren ,

The Device APIs Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on
the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Battery Status API published on 29
Nov 2011. Thank you for having taken the time to review the document and to
send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-device-apis@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 10 January
2012. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Device APIs Working Group,
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Dave Raggett
W3C Staff Contacts

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/op.v5phw5z164w2qv@annevk-macbookpro.local
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-battery-status-20111129/


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Your comment on 4. BatteryManager Interface [NoInterfaceObject]
interface...:
> The events need to be queued using the task queue defined in HTML5. It 
> 
> should probably be worded in such a way that the attribute is updated
> and  
> the event is dispatched in the same task so nothing else can observe
> the  
> attribute having changed before the event is dispatched.
> 
> You also need to actually define the various on* attributes as being
> event  
> handlers and update their IDL to match the latest crazy IDL syntax
> (which  
> might be simplified, so maybe you want to wait for that).
> 
> Should there be some kind of privacy section? I guess you cannot tell
> much  
>  from someone charging his phone, but maybe in conjunction with other
> data  
> you can find patterns of some kind. Fingerprinting is probably also  
> somewhat aided by this functionality.


Working Group Resolution (LC-2574):
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2011Dec/0013.html

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Received on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 15:39:44 UTC