9465 2010-04-09 12:51:56 +0000 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, ... 2010-10-04 14:55:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#devices P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 34704 0 contributor 2010-04-09 12:51:56 +0000 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 34879 1 ian 2010-04-13 07:35:31 +0000 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. 34880 2 ian 2010-04-13 07:36:19 +0000 Corrected URL from bug 9466: http://home.comcast.net/~johnjbarton/ubicomp/Publications/SensorEnhancedWebClients.PDF 34882 3 ian 2010-04-13 07:36:22 +0000 *** Bug 9466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***