- From: Tran, Dzung D <dzung.d.tran@intel.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:21:11 +0000
- To: Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com>, Anssi Kostiainen <anssi.kostiainen@nokia.com>
- CC: ext Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>, "public-device-apis public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>, Doug Turner <dougt@mozilla.com>, ext Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Frederick Hirsch <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
If there are interests, I can also help getting this going if Rick does not have cycles. I have done significant work around sensors at the platform level for Win8 and Android, which would come in handy when mapping to high level APIs. dtran On 2/22/13 6:28 AM, "Tobie Langel" <tobie@fb.com> wrote: >On Friday, February 22, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Anssi Kostiainen wrote: >> > I'm sorry to say that there was never much motivation here, since >>most of the copy/paste designs already have implementations. The whole >>thing felt like an exercise in futility, considering the lack of >>historic precedent in support of implementors wanting to support >>alternative designs or even consider dropping the existing APIs >>(especially where platform code, eg, b2g/gaia, has been written). >> >> Too bad. Personally speaking, I really liked your proposal, as did many >>others. But if an implementation ships, the spec typically cannot be >>changed in backwards-incompatible ways. > >I've heard significant interest from implementors to do a version 2. >These things happen. Look at what's now going with AppCache. > >--tobie >
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