Re: [ambient-light] implementation and spec status update

The actual spec writing phase of the Generic Sensor spec project is
expected to begin within the next few weeks.

Rick

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:03 PM Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the information. I've forwarded this on. I'm not 100% clear on
> our
> current implementation state (trying to find out) but will do what I can to
> ensure we bring any feedback to the group.
>
> On Thursday, April 9, 2015 5:02 AM, Kostiainen, Anssi [mailto:
> anssi.kostiainen@intel.com] wrote:
> > Hi All, Adrian, Travis, Tobie,
> >
> > I'm happy to see Project Spartan has started implement Ambient Light
> > Events spec [1,2]. As the editor of the spec I'd like to make sure all
> the
> > implementers have the same information re the spec status and its
> expected
> > stability, so here's an update that should be of interest to Project
> Spartan:
> >
> > The Last Call 19 June 2014 spec [3] has two open issues which are
> expected to
> > cause backwards incompatible changes:
> >
> > 1) Value not retrievable until a change causes the event to fire, raised
> by
> > Mozilla [4].
> >
> > 2) Apply the generic sensor API design pattern to the Ambient Light spec
> > (also captured in [4]).
> >
> > To allow the spec to evolve, this feature is currently behind a flag in
> Chrome.
> > Cc'ing Riju who implemented the feature in Chromium.
> >
> > I'm also cc'ing Tobie who's volunteered to push the generic sensor APIs
> > effort [5] forward, that we expect to address both the open issues.
> >
> > I'd appreciate if the Microsoft participants (cc'd) could convey this
> spec status
> > update to the Project Spartan team, and in turn provide Microsoft's
> > implementation feedback to this group so that we could reshape the spec
> > together.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Anssi (Ambient Light spec editor)
> >
> > [1] https://twitter.com/IEDevChat/status/585928210828800000
> > [2] https://status.modern.ie/ambientlightevents
> > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-ambient-light-20140619/
> > [4] http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/track/issues/170
> > [5] https://github.com/w3c/sensors
>
>