Re: Battery Status API asynchronous amendment

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 May 2014, at 7:07, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> > Maybe getBattery() could resolve to an array... might avoid issues down
> > the road if any device ships with multiple batteries.
>
> If a device has two batteries, I do not think it should be exposed as
> such by the API. If you have two batteries, it is simpler for the
> developer to see this as one battery. Otherwise, the developers would
> have to do a lot of work to guess how much battery power is left
> depending on the internals of the system (is the system using both
> batteries at the same time, one after each other, etc.).
>
> Though, if it happens that developers would like more details,
> navigator.getBatteries() could return a detailed version while
> navigator.getBattery() would return merged data. WDYT?
>

I agree. The main purpose of the API tends to be: provide information about
available energy in general. If need be later we could add getBatteries()
to the spec, otherwise I think getBattery() should provide aggregated
energy where necessary.

Tim