CR: Wake Lock API

Wake Lock API

https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/CR-wake-lock-20171214/

feedback due by: 2018-01-25

Abstract


This document specifies an API that allows web applications to request a wake lock. A wake lock prevents some aspect of the device from entering a power-saving state (e.g., preventing the system from turning off the screen).

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This document was published by the Device and Sensors Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. Comments regarding this document are welcome. Please send them to public-device-apis@w3.org (subscribe, archives). W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation by the developer community. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation no earlier than 25 January 2018.

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This document is governed by the 1 March 2017 W3C Process Document.