- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 19:59:41 +0200
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 05/21/2012 04:42 PM, James Graham wrote: > On 05/21/2012 04:34 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> If I'm reading the right code now, that looks like it returns a constant >> value for each connection type (e.g. if you're connected via Ethernet or >> Wifi it returns 20; if you're connected via EDGE it returns 0.2, etc). > > This suggests that the API is extremely silly; although one could > presumably claim that "an estimate" allows one to return anything, I > don't see how returning "20" if the server is feeding you 1 byte/second > can be helpful to anyone. If no one plans to implement this as a loose > proxy for "type of connection" the spec shouldn't pretend to do more > than that. > > Can you point me to the discussion of usecases that led to this design? This has been discussed in the DAP WG [1]. Actually, I think we should move that discussion there. [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ Cheers, -- Mounir
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