- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:55:22 +0100
- To: "Appelquist Daniel (UK)" <Daniel.Appelquist@telefonica.com>
- Cc: "public-web-mobile@w3.org" <public-web-mobile@w3.org>, Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org>, Michael Vakulenko <michael@visionmobile.com>, Andreas Constantinou <andreas@visionmobile.com>, Dimitris Michalakos <dimitris@visionmobile.com>
On Friday, October 18, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Appelquist Daniel (UK) wrote: > I'll give you a very concrete example: I have an account with BT Wifi > that lets me use any BT wifi hotspot. On Android, devices there is a BT > wifi app that can scan available wifi SSIDs and automatically connect you > without having to go through the "captive portal" nonsense. (IOS also has > an app but because IOS does not enable these APIs for developers all it > can do is automatically log you in once you are already associated with > the wifi network.) In a "Web-based OS" device, it would be very useful to > be able to do this stuff. Ah! thanks! Yes, I've seen Skype does this too with Bingo hotspots (but only on desktop machines). However, I've never seen any other app do this on mobile, so I'm wondering why people are raising this as such a massive blocker? Is this something done on Android? -- Marcos Caceres
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