RE: Battery Status API aligned with Mozilla's implementation

Two quick questions outside of the discussion on the representation of the
no-battery case in the other thread.

Currently the spec says that if the implementation is unable to report the
charging state, chargingState must be set to "full". In what situation then
will the value of "unknown" be used?

The value of remaining is to be set to positive infinity on a couple of
occasions. Since the attribute is a long, would it be more accurate to state
the exact value to be used instead? After all, one can't really represent
positive infinity with a long (or can we?).

Also one small typo: towards the end of Section 3.2 just before the Issue
box, "When the value of charging, level, ...", s/charging/chargingState/.

- Cathy. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-device-status-request@w3.org [mailto:public-device-status-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kostiainen Anssi (Nokia-CIC/Espoo)
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:11 PM
> To: public-device-status@w3.org
> Subject: Battery Status API aligned with Mozilla's implementation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I reworked the Battery Status spec and aligned it with Mozilla's Battery
API:
> 
>   http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/system-info/battery-status.html
> 
> This is a rather significant change compared to the latest Public Working
Draft
> of the spec, so in the process the spec was renamed from "Battery Status
> Events" to "Battery Status API" which feels like a more descriptive name
for
> the current thing.
> 
> The new and shiny Battery Status API includes some additional stuff on top
> of the Mozilla's current implementation that have been discussed on this
list
> such as the 'remaining' attribute. It also defines defaults to the
> BatteryManager attributes.
> 
> Let's continue iteration based on this spec. I've tagged a one TODO item
in
> the spec, and there are probably plenty of more things to be tightened, so
> please continue sending your feedback. And let me know if I have forgotten
> to incorporate some of the existing proposals.
> 
> -Anssi
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678694