LGTM1. Seems like a small and useful addition.

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 9:42:23 AM UTC+1 François Beaufort wrote:

> Contact emails
>
> [email protected]
>
> [email protected]
>
> Explainer
>
> https://github.com/WICG/webhid/blob/main/EXPLAINER.md
>
> Specification
>
> https://wicg.github.io/webhid/#forget-method
>
> https://github.com/WICG/webhid/pull/84
>
> Summary
>
> The HIDDevice forget() method allows web developers to voluntarily revoke 
> a permission to a HIDDevice that was granted by a user.
>
> Blink component
>
> Blink>HID 
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EHID>
>
> Motivation
>
> Some sites may not be interested in retaining long-term permissions to 
> access a HID device. For example, for an educational web application used 
> on a shared computer with many devices, a large number of accumulated 
> user-generated permissions creates a poor user experience.
> In addition to user agent mitigations to avoid this problem, such as 
> defaulting to a session scoped permission on the first request or expiring 
> infrequently used permissions, it should be possible for the site itself to 
> clean up user-generated permissions it is no longer interested in retaining.
>
> // Request a HID device.
>
> const [device] = await navigator.hid.requestDevice({ filters: [] });
>
> // Then later... revoke permission to the HID device.
>
> await device.forget();
>
> We expect similar functionality to Web Bluetooth, WebUSB, and the Serial 
> API to be added.
>
> TAG review
>
> https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/703
>
> TAG review status
>
> Pending
>
> Risks
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> This small addition to the HIDDevice object does not change the overall 
> status of WebHID interoperability or compatibility.
>
> Signals from other implementations (Gecko, WebKit): 
>
> Gecko: No Signal [1]
>
> WebKit: No Signal [1]
>
> Web / Framework developers: Positive 
> https://github.com/WICG/webhid/issues/39
>
> Other signals: Google Meet folks have tried it and strongly support this 
> addition.
>
> [1] Both Gecko and WebKit are unlikely to object to this feature 
> specifically, but object to the overall WebHID API as a whole, hence it 
> doesn't make sense to bug them with specific questions on this.
>
> Activation:
>
> This feature can't be polyfilled. It should be fairly trivial for 
> developers to adopt this new feature.
>
> Debuggability
>
> No specific DevTools changes are required. This feature is treated like 
> any other JS method.
>
> Note that exposing DevTools debugging support for device-access APIs 
> (WebHID included) is discussed at 
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1142566.
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests 
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ?
>
> No, because permission storage is implemented outside of Blink and so 
> isn’t testable by web-platform-tests. Some tests that only verify the 
> presence of interfaces and attributes will be available at 
> https://wpt.fyi/results/webhid though.
>
> Requires code in //chrome?
>
> Yes, permission storage is implemented in //chrome.
>
> Tracking bug
>
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1279822
>
> Estimated milestones
>
> 100
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5723581527883776
>
> Links to previous Intent discussions
>
> Intent to prototype: 
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/c2vCYr-0dqk/m/3nSeViRLCgAJ
>

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