- From: Doug Turner <dougt@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:49:08 -0700
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com, public-device-apis@w3.org
On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 09:36 -0700, Doug Turner a écrit : >> On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: >>> Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 09:24 -0700, Doug Turner a écrit : >>>> I am taking a much simpler approach to this whole thing. Here is what >>>> I am doing for proximity. It follows what we did for device motion: >>>> https://dougturner.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/device-proximity/ >>> >>> It's simpler, but not that much simpler. One reason I took the approach >>> I mentioned is that some proximity sensors only report a boolean state >>> (near/far); without a notion of accuracy, I don't know how your proposal >>> addresses this. >> >> yes, but it is simpler and follows a known pattern. > > So does my proposal (it's modeled on the battery API). The battery API isn't shipping everywhere. Device orientation (and soon device motion) is shipping in Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. > (if in fact activation-on-addEventListener is OK, I'll update > http://scriptlib-cg.github.com/api-design-cookbook/ to reflect this) Sure. It is what Device Motion and Orientation is doing. Why would it now be bad for other APIs to do this? Lets strive for consistency.
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