Speaking on behalf of the privacy community (writ large and vaguely) thank you very much for this!
best, Joe On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote: > As proposed earlier on the dev-platform list [1], I made the Battery > Status API chrome-only in Firefox Nightly 52 (bug 1313580 [2]). The battery > code and tests remain, available to Gecko code and Firefox add-ons. > > There should be little risk of web compat regressions. The battery API was > never implemented by IE, Edge, or Safari, so web content should already be > feature-detecting the API. Also, I know of no non-trivial websites using > the API for anything other than fingerprinting users in the four years > since Firefox introduced the API in 2012 (Firefox 10 [3]). Chrome added > support in 2014. > > We always have the option to make the API available to web content again > if a website or app demonstrates an interesting use case using Chrome's > battery API. However, I feel the supposed use cases for the battery API > would be better served by something like a lifecycle event API that > includes low battery/memory warnings. That would expose less identifying > information and allow the user and UA to customize the lifecycle settings. > > > [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/5U8NHoU > Y-1k/9ybyzQIYCAAJ > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1313580 > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678694 > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology [https://www.cdt.org] 1401 K ST NW STE 200, Washington DC 20005-3497 e: j...@cdt.org, p: 202.407.8825, pgp: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key Fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871 Tech Prom, CDT's Annual Dinner, is April 20, 2017! https://cdt.org/annual-dinner _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
