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Bug 9465 - This 'Device' section finds the W3C sadly still oblivious of the opportunity to integrate sensor-rich mobile devices into the web. What is wrong with "generic"?! The standard should enable barcode readers, accelerometers, thermometers, RFID readers, ...
Summary: This 'Device' section finds the W3C sadly still oblivious of the opportunity ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-04-09 12:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-04-09 12:51:56 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#devices

Comment:
This 'Device' section finds the W3C sadly still oblivious of the opportunity
to integrate sensor-rich mobile devices into the web.  What is wrong with
"generic"?!  The standard should enable barcode readers, accelerometers,
thermometers, RFID readers, ... to be invoked from web clients. See
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-52.html. Tim Kindberg

Posted from: 195.10.250.233
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-13 07:35:31 UTC 
It's only an early draft, primarily intended for video conferencing use cases. I would be very interested in examining other possible uses for it, though, that's why it's designed to be extensible.

What would be most useful here would be implementation experience — if a browser vendor could implement <device> and test it with barcode readers, accelerometers, thermometers, RFID readers, etc, we could see whether it's a good design.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-13 07:36:22 UTC 
*** Bug 9466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***