ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all

handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all

State:
CLOSED
Product:
Vibration API
Raised by:
Frederick Hirsch
Opened on:
2013-09-04
Description:
raised by Daniel Glazman

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2013Jul/0050.html

comment on 20130723 CR, section 4 #3 and #5

I have a comment about the Vibration API CR:

If I understand them correctly, section 4 items 3 and 5 say that the
requested vibration are entirely dropped in case of overflow beyond
implementation-dependent limits. So let's say an app calls

navigator.vibrate([50, 100, 150, 100, 150]);

but the device is unable to handle a list of more than 3 values,
the device will not vibrate at all. Why that choice and not a
truncated list? Same thing for the duration of a vibration or silence,
why not a fallback to the implementation limit?
It seems to me that getting absolutely no result based on an
unpredictable device dependency is not something that developers will
like...
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Related emails:
  1. Re: [vibration] Mozilla Vibration API status (from anssi.kostiainen@intel.com on 2014-05-22)
  2. [admin] Draft minutes 6 Feb 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-02-06)
  3. [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 6 February 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-02-05)
  4. Draft minutes 30 January 2014 teleconference (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-30)
  5. Re: [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 30 January 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-30)
  6. Regrets: [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 30 January 2014 (from dom@w3.org on 2014-01-29)
  7. Re: [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 30 January 2014 (from anssi.kostiainen@intel.com on 2014-01-29)
  8. [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 30 January 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-28)
  9. [admin] Draft minutes teleconference 16 January 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-16)
  10. [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 16 January 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-15)
  11. [admin] Draft minutes 9 January 2014 teleconference (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-09)
  12. [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 9 January 2014 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-08)
  13. Re: [vibration] issue status summary (from mvanouwerkerk@google.com on 2014-01-06)
  14. [vibration] issue status summary (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2014-01-03)
  15. [admin] Draft minutes teleconference 12 December 2013 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-12-12)
  16. [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 12 December2013 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-12-11)
  17. Re: [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 21 November 2013 (from jean-claude.dufourd@telecom-paristech.fr on 2013-11-21)
  18. [admin] Agenda - Distributed Meeting 21 November 2013 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-11-21)
  19. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 7 November 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-11-05)
  20. Re: Agenda - Distributed Meeting 31 October 2013 (Thursday) (from jean-claude.dufourd@telecom-paristech.fr on 2013-10-29)
  21. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 31 October 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-28)
  22. [admin] Draft minutes 17 October 2013 teleconference (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-17)
  23. Re: Agenda - Distributed Meeting 17 October 2013 (Thursday) (from jean-claude.dufourd@telecom-paristech.fr on 2013-10-17)
  24. Re: Agenda - Distributed Meeting 17 October 2013 (Thursday) (from dom@w3.org on 2013-10-17)
  25. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 17 October 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-17)
  26. [admin] Draft Minutes 10 October 2013 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-16)
  27. Re: [vibration] proposed Note text for pattern truncation, ISSUE-149 (from mvanouwerkerk@chromium.org on 2013-10-16)
  28. RE: DAP-ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all [Vibration API] (from Cathy.Chan@nokia.com on 2013-10-14)
  29. Re: [vibration] proposed Note text for pattern truncation, ISSUE-149 (from anssi.kostiainen@intel.com on 2013-10-14)
  30. Re: DAP-ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all [Vibration API] (from anssi.kostiainen@intel.com on 2013-10-14)
  31. Re: DAP-ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all [Vibration API] (from anssi.kostiainen@intel.com on 2013-10-14)
  32. CVS 2009/dap/vibration (from cvsmail@w3.org on 2013-10-14)
  33. [vibration] proposed Note text for pattern truncation, ISSUE-149 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-11)
  34. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 10 October 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-10)
  35. RE: DAP-ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all [Vibration API] (from Cathy.Chan@nokia.com on 2013-10-04)
  36. Draft minutes today 3 October 2013 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-03)
  37. Re: DAP-ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all [Vibration API] (from anssi.kostiainen@intel.com on 2013-10-03)
  38. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 3 October 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-10-02)
  39. Minutes 26 Sept 2013 (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-09-26)
  40. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 26 Sept 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-09-26)
  41. Draft minutes DAP 19 Sept 2013 teleconference (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-09-19)
  42. Agenda - Distributed Meeting 19 Sept 2013 (Thursday) (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-09-18)
  43. Cancel DAP call this week, meet next Thursday 19 Sept; pls work on ISSUES and ACTIONS on mail list (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2013-09-10)
  44. DAP-ISSUE-149: handling of long vibration list - truncate or no vibration at all [Vibration API] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-09-04)

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