Re: Vibration API strength (weaker/stronger)

Well, in this version of the API there's no vibration strength control, for
the reasons mentioned before. But as a fallback, to make a vibration more
or less noticeable you can play with duration and repeated vibrations. For
example: vibrate([50, 100, 50, 100, 1000]) would create a short vibration,
short pause, short vibration again, short pause again, and then a longer
vibration. Think of it like composing a rhythm in music. Some draw more
attention than others.

Regards,

Michael


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:58 PM, <7raivis@inbox.lv> wrote:

> Michael, what do you mean with specific on/off patterns?
> http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/vibration/ has nothing mentionned about it.
>
> Binyamin
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Michael van Ouwerkerk <
> mvanouwerkerk@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Note that while intensity is not controllable with this API, you can
>> increase duration and design specific on/off patterns. Not the same, but it
>> may help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:15 PM, <7raivis@inbox.lv> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Frederick, for your feedback!
>>> Vibration strength control would improve UX, it is like to control sound
>>> volume. It shocks on starting loud music or strong vibration. If it would
>>> have option to start from peaceful quiet music, weak vibration, it would
>>> make a obviously strongly better UX. Old GSM devices still has such a
>>> examples.
>>>
>>> Binyamin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:44 PM, <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Please note that varying vibration strength may be beyond the goals of
>>>> this specification. The introduction states:
>>>>
>>>>  "The API is specifically designed to address use cases that require
>>>> simple tactile feedback only. Use cases requiring more fine-grained control
>>>> are out of scope for this specification. This API is not meant to be used
>>>> as a generic notification mechanism. "
>>>>
>>>>  It seems that varying strength is a complication that is not needed
>>>> to provide 'simple tactile feedback. What is the use case for adding
>>>> vibration strength and which implementations would support this?
>>>>
>>>>    regards, Frederick
>>>>
>>>>  Frederick Hirsch
>>>> Nokia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:42 AM, ext 7raivis@inbox.lv wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  בע"ה
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Why the Vibration API http://www.w3.org/TR/vibration/ does not have
>>>> such a thing as strength (weaker/stronger)? I think it is an important
>>>> thing to add.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Binyamin
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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