On 12/15/2016 09:53 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 12/15/16 2:39 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
FWIW I was one of the people who were involved in the discussions around
this for Firefox OS. From what I remember, the argument for shipping
this API was that web developers have been asking for this for years,
and they are basically happy to know the distinction between cellular
data and other transports, and infer whether the connection "costs
money".
OK. That does seem like a useful thing to expose, but it's precisely one bit
of information, right? Why are we exposing all this other stuff instead?
-Boris
Even "costs money" based on the transport type is very unreliable. Coming from
a country where basically all the mobile data plans
are unlimited (and cheap), it mostly just annoys when some OSes warn about use of mobile data to download lots of data (like updates) because of its
possible cost. Rather bad UX.
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