re: the boolean properties -- I was thinking about Modernizr plus
yepnope http://yepnopejs.com/
Don't know about the other platforms, but Cordova waits for the
Objective-C side to return with the device properties before calling
deviceready, so we need to bench it first
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
> plus there could be more than one camera accessing api (and there is!)
>
> kinda like the flat bool property approach you propose shaz. the
> calling code would be clean. worried we're going to end up throwing
> lots of shit on that pile. also not sure what the perf impact would be
> like. (presumably these are blocking calls which kinda sucks.)
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So... if the device is capable of something (say front and back
>> camera) and we don't enable the Camera plugin, one can't query for it?
>> This is more of a device thing I think than a Camera API thing. Can't
>> think of a scenario besides diagnostics though...
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ask the camera API, not the device! Otherwise we will surely be
>>> screwed with every new capability that ever comes out ...
>>>
>>> window.device.camera.capabilities// returns ... an array? an integer?
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> window.device.camera.supports("frontfacingcamera"); // boolean
>>>
>>> window.device.capture.supports("h264recording");
>>> ....
>>>
>>> Since the Camera is really just a plugin to us, we should just be
>>> defining a way for a plugin to describe it's capabilities on a
>>> particular device.
>>>
>>> My 2 cents, ... back to parental leave ...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jesse
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
>>>> ya. slippery ground. the orig query, and valid one at that imo, is how
>>>> to find out if we have any camera, or two.
>>>>
>>>> window.device.capabilities.camera // returns ... an array? an integer?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hmm so then standardizing the .capabilities object becomes the hard part?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/19/12 4:56 PM, "Shazron" <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>We already have the window.device object -- we can tack on a
>>>>>>window.device.capabilities object that could contain the boolean
>>>>>>properties or something.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
>>>>>>> I dunno, I think this is independent of the current APIs. (More than
>>>>>>> one API we have deals w/ Cameras for example.) Seems like we want more
>>>>>>> nuance than boolean too (consider front && back camera). We are
>>>>>>> definitely talking about hardware/sensors detection.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not loving the w3c cc/pp spec, that RDF business looks hairy, I think
>>>>>>> we need something more approachable like you describe.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Tack on a .yep boolean onto every API surface?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 10/19/12 2:25 PM, "Brian LeRoux" <b...@brian.io> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Community member Ian has noticed our lack of a capabilities api, and
>>>>>>>>>ignoring the snipe at our foresight, I do agree its a missing piece in
>>>>>>>>>the web platform. [1]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>There is some prior art.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>- Media queries have a couple of interesting APIs (matchMedia [2],
>>>>>>>>>window.devicePixelRatio, and potentially a future
>>>>>>>>>navigator.supportsCSS).
>>>>>>>>>- Flash has a comprehensive capabilities API. [3]
>>>>>>>>>- The W3C has a somewhat unwieldy take on this issue. [4] It should
>>>>>>>>>be noted that a new working group at the w3c called sysapps will be
>>>>>>>>>addressing this.
>>>>>>>>>- Tizen has a System Info API (which I'd link to but cannot).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Does anyone have any thoughts on how we should structure / develop out
>>>>>>>>>the ability for our users to query the device capbilities?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>[1] https://twitter.com/iandevlin/status/259309546969903104
>>>>>>>>>[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.matchMedia
>>>>>>>>>[3]
>>>>>>>>>http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flas
>>>>>>>>>h/s
>>>>>>>>>ystem/Capabilities.html
>>>>>>>>>[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab2-20070430/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> @purplecabbage
>>> risingj.com
