"these new functions are part of the plan to start prompting for access in
the future."
Can I assume this means you're going to deprecate default access
to window.ondevice{motion,orientation} at some point?
Joe Medley | Technical Writer, Chrome DevRel | [email protected] |
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*If an API's not documented it doesn't exist.*
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 6:15 AM Raphael Kubo da Costa <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Contact emails [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
>
> Explainer None
>
> Specification https://w3c.github.io/deviceorientation
>
> Summary
>
> Allows developers to ask for permission to start using the Device
> Orientation and Device Motion APIs. Access to these APIs is currently
> granted by default, and these new functions are part of the plan to start
> prompting for access in the future.
>
>
> Blink component Blink>Sensor>DeviceOrientation
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3ESensor%3EDeviceOrientation>
>
> Motivation
>
> The Device Orientation spec is more than a decade old, at a time when
> integration with the Permissions spec was not common (or possible). As
> such, developers can use the window.ondevice{motion,orientation} events
> without having to ask for permission before reading sensor data. A few
> years ago, the WebKit team added the requestPermission() functions to
> DeviceOrientationEvent and DeviceMotionEvent when implementing the spec, so
> that websites would have to ask for permission before being able to use the
> API. This is the case on Safari for iOS at the moment. We want to do the
> same thing and avoid allowing websites access to sensor data by default.
> Doing this in Chromium is more complicated because the API is already
> implemented, and requiring developers to add requestPermission() to their
> websites out of the blue can risk breaking the web. In this first step, the
> idea is to just add the API and make it report "granted" or "denied"
> without prompting for access (i.e. it just reports the current Motion
> Sensor permission settings) while also adding user counters to understand
> how many pages are already using the requestPermission() calls and how many
> pages are just using window.ondevice{motion,orientation} without it. We
> will then evaluate how to switch to prompting by default in the future, as
> discussed in the tracking bug.
>
>
> Initial public proposal
>
> Search tags device orientation
> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:device%20orientation>, device
> motion <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:device%20motion>
>
> TAG review
>
> TAG review status Not applicable
>
> Risks
>
>
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
>
>
> *Gecko*: Under consideration (
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536382)
>
> *WebKit*: Shipped/Shipping (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195329
> )
>
> *Web developers*: No signals
>
> *Other signals*: Lots of comments in the Chromium tracking bug over the
> years
>
> WebView application risks
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> -
>
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ? Yes (as part of the CL I am working on)
>
> Flag name
>
> Requires code in //chrome? False
>
> Tracking bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=947112
>
> Estimated milestones
>
> No milestones specified
>
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5051845089689600
>
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