CR: Generic Sensor API (Call for Wide Review)

Generic Sensor API

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/CR-generic-sensor-20191212/

feedback due by: 2020-01-08

Abstract

This specification defines a framework for exposing sensor data to the Open Web Platform in a consistent way. It does so by defining a blueprint for writing specifications of concrete sensors along with an abstract Sensor interface that can be extended to accommodate different sensor types.

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/. 

This document was published by the Devices and Sensors Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. This document will remain a Candidate Recommendation at least until 8 January 2020 in order to ensure the opportunity for wide review. 

If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-device-apis@w3.org (subscribe, archives). When sending e-mail, please put the text “generic-sensor” in the subject, preferably like this: “[generic-sensor] …summary of comment…”. All comments are welcome. 

Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. 

The entrance criteria for this document to enter the Proposed Recommendation stage is to have a minimum of two independent and interoperable user agents that implementation all the features of this specification, which will be determined by passing the user agent tests defined in the test suite developed by the Working Group. The Working Group will prepare an implementation report to track progress. 

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This document is governed by the 1 March 2019 W3C Process Document. 

 

Further implementation experience is being gathered for the permission request algorithm and specification clarifications informed by this experience are being discussed in GitHub issue #397. The group does not expect to advance this specification beyond CR until [PERMISSIONS-REQUEST] moves beyond incubation.

Received on Thursday, 12 December 2019 05:52:58 UTC