- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:33:39 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, David Bennett wrote: > > Any instant messaging client, or any client that requires user presence, > will use this to keep track of the users idle state. Currently the idle > state of a user inside a browser tell tend to be incorrect, and this > leads to problems with people being unable to rely on the available > status of a user. Without this information it is difficult to do a full > featured and reliable instant messaging client inside the browser since > this makes the users' status somewhat unreliable. > > Lots of social networking sites and other sites centered around user > interactions on the net keep track of the users idle state for enabling > interactions with people that are currently online, this would be > especially useful for interactive online gaming. > > A process that would like to do some heavy duty processing, like > seti at home, could use the system idle detection to enable the processing > only when the user is idle and enable it to not interfere with or > degrade their normal browsing experience. These seems reasonable. I think they would be best handled as an independent specification, since they don't depends on HTML itself. I would recommend bringing this up in the public-webapps working group, with some proposed spec text and a sample implementations. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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