> > now that device orientation, geolocation, camera etc. have been
> > spec'ed:
> > Is there any intent to provide an API for pressure sensors?
> >
> > This might well be the next hip feature in smartphones ...
> 
> Note that differential pressure measurements from nearby locations can
> be better at determining
> altitude differences than GPS, plus, they work indoors.

Are there other use cases apart from guessing the altitude? It figuring out the 
device altitude is the use case, shouldn't the API expose the altitude and 
allow the altitude to be computed by the browser or by the operating system 
from a pressure sensor, from GPS or both?

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

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