On 2016-12-15 2:53 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?
Yes. > Why are we exposing all this other stuff > instead? I'm not personally trying to advocate for this API, I was merely reflecting the other side of the conversation from my memory. (I personally agree with most of what you said, except that I'm convinced that we should expose that one bit.) >From a more practical perspective, we have two shipping implementations of this API. What are you proposing to do with that for starters? Note that Chrome has some use counters on this API: * https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#NetInfo * https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#NetInfoType * https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#NetInfoOnTypeChange * https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#NetInfoOnChange *https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#NetInfoDownlinkMax _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
