- From: Doug Turner <dougt@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:33:56 -0700
On May 8, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > The reason that I'm not really happy with this API is the fact that it > forces pages to remove all event listeners in order to shut down a > sensor. True. I haven't heard of anyone actually worrying about this. > It seems more author friendly to me to allow pages to keep > event listeners registered but to have an "on/off" switch which they > can use to control if they want the sensor to be enabled. (Setting it > to "off" would of course only affect if events are delivered to that > page. If another page set it to "on" the UA would still fire the > events to the second page, and that page only). I do not think we have similar on/off switch APIs for other DOM apis?. Do we? > Technically we could add such a switch later if the switch's default > value is "on". Yup, if there is a demand for it, it is easy to add such a feature. I want to keep these APIs as damn simple as possible. Doug
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