- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:59:42 +1000
- To: Thomas Steiner <tomac@google.com>, "Christiansen, Kenneth R" <kenneth.r.christiansen@intel.com>, "Kostiainen, Anssi" <anssi.kostiainen@intel.com>, Yoav Weiss <yoavweiss@google.com>, Addy Osmani <addyo@google.com>, "TOREINI, EHSAN" <ehsan.toreini@durham.ac.uk>, Noam Helfman <noamh@microsoft.com>, Tarun Bansal <tbansal@google.com>, W3C Devices and Sensors WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@chromium.org>, "ilya@igvita.com" <ilya@igvita.com>, Pete LePage <petele@google.com>
> On 16 Aug 2021, at 10:26 pm, Thomas Steiner <tomac@google.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 2:50 AM Marcos Caceres <marcosc@w3.org> wrote: > Thanks for attempting to pick this up again. My opinion/advice as someone involved with this API from the beginning... > > Thanks a lot, greatly appreciated! To be frank (and this is not in any way directed at you, Thomas!): After 7+ years, I think the API is now too poisoned by bad history to revive. I'd urge us to just cut our losses and see if we can just do something new/entirely different or come at this from a different angle. Instead of focusing on the API at all, if we can get other implementers - which are noticeably absent from the cc: and possibly the working group (!) - to agree on a tiny set of use cases, I think that would be a better (re)start to this effort. Otherwise, I worry that we are going to just fall into the "well, we all think it's a good idea" Chromium-echo-chamber, while just further frustrating and polarizing WebKit and Gecko folks with respect to the netinfo use cases. I know that's not on purpose, but that's kinda where we are (specially with anything "net info"). Kind regards, Marcos
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