This is what the attached and detached callbacks are for on custom
elements. Someone can build an app-screenlock element that requests the
lock when it's attached (added to the viewed document) and releases when
it's detached (removed from the viewed document).
There's no reason to complicate
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Kornel Lesiński kor...@geekhood.net wrote:
My biggest concern with the WakeLock API is that it's easy to forget (or
fail) to release the lock.
It's not a problem with the API per se, but a programming problem in general:
resource management in non-trivial
On Monday, August 18, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Kornel Lesiński wrote:
My biggest concern with the WakeLock API is that it's easy to forget (or
fail) to release the lock.
It's not a problem with the API per se, but a programming problem in general:
resource management in non-trivial programs is
In general I feel this thread has taken a turn for the complex. Why don't we
just do what other platforms do, and provide a simple global request/release
mechanism (or toggleable Boolean property!), which developers can build on top
of? A lot of the ideas here seem to be trying to create the
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Domenic Denicola
dome...@domenicdenicola.com wrote:
In general I feel this thread has taken a turn for the complex. Why don't we
just do what other platforms do, and provide a simple global request/release
mechanism (or toggleable Boolean property!), which
On Monday, August 18, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
In general I feel this thread has taken a turn for the complex. Why don't we
just do what other platforms do, and provide a simple global request/release
mechanism (or toggleable Boolean property!), which developers can build
(sorry, accidental send before!)
On Monday, August 18, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
In general I feel this thread has taken a turn for the complex. Why don't we
just do what other platforms do, and provide a simple global request/release
mechanism (or toggleable Boolean
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Marcos Caceres w...@marcosc.com wrote:
The reason I didn't make it a boolean was because of the IPC involved and
because I wanted to support multiple types of locks without needing to add
new attributes in the future (and if we need to add the complex stuff
