RE: no longer possible to detect battery presence? RE: Battery API in Last Call

This is a battery spec, so you would only use it if it is on a mobile device. One can use User agent string to determine if you are on a mobile device.

Otherwise, might consider to change this attribute to a “state” attribute of enumerated type of (charging, discharging,undefined).

Thanks
Tran

From: Josh Soref [mailto:jsoref@rim.com]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 11:37 AM
To: Tran, Dzung D; Carr, Wayne; mounir@lamouri.fr
Cc: olli@pettay.fi; dom@w3.org; public-device-apis@w3.org; public-device-status@w3.org
Subject: Re: no longer possible to detect battery presence? RE: Battery API in Last Call

Tran wrote:
> to something:
> Represents if the system's battery is charging. The attribute MUST be set to false if the battery is discharging, and set to true if the battery is charging. If the battery status cannot be determined, the implementation should raise an error or an undefined state.

Absolutely not.

The average case is that I'm on a desktop. We do *not* want average cases to trigger exceptions. Nor do we want them not to work.
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