Dropping support for Android was my initial proposal, but I'm fine with either.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 12:44 PM Dmitry Blotsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you mean dropping support only for Android, or dropping the plugin > altogether? On some platforms it may still be relevant. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Android] Proposal: Deprecate/No-Op Battery Plugin > > Can we drop our support for the battery plugin entirely? Let the community > take over if they want it? > I would rank it very low in use among our supported plugins, but it does > probably still need to exist. > > > > > On Mar 24, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey > > > > So, right now our current Battery Plugin on Android is actually > > considered harmful to devices and shouldn't be used. It seems that > > the Chrome team has implemented the Battery Spec in Chromium 38. This > > can be tested with this simple JSBin here: > > > > http://jsbin.com/battery-status-test > > > > The problem is that Android WebView on Lollipop that's installable > > from the Play Store is at 37, and of course I don't even have to > > mention earlier Android versions that we support, some of which don't > even support Chromium. > > > > However, the latest Crosswalk does support the Battery Spec, so we > > have two > > options: > > 1. Implement a plugin for the non-Crosswalk use case, knowing that > > it'll be obsolete for Future Android. We always intend to do this, > > but this never, ever happens. > > 2. We drop support the Battery Plugin for Android since nothing in > > this case is better than something that's actively draining your battery. > > > > What do people think of this? > > > > Joe > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
