Re: Device light and proximity sensor

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From: "SULLIVAN, BRYAN L" <bs3131@att.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM
To: "Niklas Widell" <niklas.widell@ericsson.com>
Cc: "Doug Turner" <dougt@mozilla.com>; "Robin Berjon" <robin@berjon.com>; 
<public-device-apis@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Device light and proximity sensor

> On the DAP call today I mentioned some thing related to this, and Dzung's 
> update to the Sensor spec in response to Doug's spec. Overall, my goal is 
> that we get specs to CR with at least the >minimum functionality that 
> developers need to build effective apps. The one/many spec debate has been 
> had before, and I will remain on the sideline there (ere are valid points 
> on both sides).
>
> I'm more concerned that the Sensor APIs contain the essential 
> functionality. I'm not yet convinced that a simple min/max response for 
> the ambient sound/light and proximity sensors will be >enough, ie that no 
> information/control of trigger points and event rate is needed. But I can 
> be convinced if someone can explain how a Web developer would deal with 
> such issues in an >efficient, cross-platform way in the case that 
> platforms vary widely in these additional aspects.

I feel, addition of sensor_granularity and interval parameters can help to 
solve parts of the problems that you have mentioned. The interval parameter 
is used in device orientation event specification ([1]) as well. Developers 
can detect the usefulness of the data based on these two parameters.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/orientation-event/


>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Sullivan
>
> On May 8, 2012, at 5:07 AM, "Niklas Widell" <niklas.widell@ericsson.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-05-07 17:58, "Doug Turner" <dougt@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 7, 2012, at 8:47 AM, SULLIVAN, BRYAN L wrote:
>>>
>>>> I do like the simplicity of the proposals. I would like to see them
>>>> extended to ambient sound as well, using the same simple model
>>>
>>> Yup.  I agree.
>>
>> Is there anything preventing doing all the sensors in the current [1]
>> sensor API with similar solutions?
>>
>> [1]
>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dap/raw-file/tip/sensor-api/Overview.html#datatypes
>>
>

Received on Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:26:47 UTC