Re: [presentation-api] Add note on how presentations without connections should be handled. (#484)

> In other words, I believe that the controlling user agent should never offer to connect to a receiving user agent that wouldn't be able to provide a communication channel, unless the application is explicit that the communication channel is optional (or unless we're talking about a URI scheme different from http and https, but then that's out of scope of the spec). That is the reason why I was proposing some sort of option to the PresentationRequest constructor.

I guess you are right, in that this PR doesn't address the problem of availability - the user agent won't know whether to offer receivers without a communication channel, since it won't know in advance whether the application is capable providing its own.

> In any case, if there are no implementation plans for such a feature, it should probably just be dropped.

We don't have any plans to offer the types of endpoints #3-#6 in Issue #202 (like NFC, BTLE, QR codes) as "presentation" devices through this API.  Since the issue was filed, the are Web APIs exposing these capabilities have matured and I think it would make more sense for developers to try those first.

I'm going to close this PR and the original issue.





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