- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:06:47 +0000
- To: public-device-apis@w3.org
On 08/11/12 21:20, SULLIVAN, BRYAN L wrote: >> >> As discussed at TPAC [1], I've updated the ED of the Network Information >> API to include a few use cases and the outstanding issues. > > Re "Any app trying to aggressively cache any downloaded asset when the user has a low bandwidth or a metered connection", I think you mean " Any app trying to aggressively cache any downloaded asset when the user has a high bandwidth or a non-metered connection " I meant that. The idea is that an application might want to aggressively cache when the user has a low bandwidth or a metered connection. > The "return non absolute values" idea seems to be a valuable compromise between privacy and the importance of this information. Does other people believing that 'bandwidth' is a bad idea would agree with non-absolute values like 'slow'/'fast'. > I also agree that the metered flag should be retained, though I suggest it be not a Boolean but rather "yes", "no", or "unknown". Reporting a connection as unmetered when that's actually unknown (or unknowable in the current device), is IMO a bad idea. The specification clearly requests user agents that can't figure out if the user has a metered connection to return 'false'. Cheers, -- Mounir
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