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/flash/system/Capabilities.html [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab2-20070430/
