- From: Reilly Grant via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 01:16:46 +0000
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
Is this separate from the permission policy question? I think the orientation and motion events are already as abstracted from the underlying sensors as is possible while still being well-defined. That is, for example, the `acceleration` property of a `DeviceMotionEvent` implies the existence of an accelerometer. That's what a device which measures acceleration is called. It doesn't specify how the accelerometer works but if you have the ability to measure acceleration then you have something called an accelerometer. The same applies to "gyroscope". Even if it isn't constructed of concentric spinning rings it seems like the scientific community generally calls anything which can measure angular velocity a gyroscope. We could potentially rename "magnetometer" to "compass" if we want to focus the concept on determining heading or orientation on a spherical planet rather than measuring a magnetic field. -- GitHub Notification of comment by reillyeon Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/180#issuecomment-2121521689 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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