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Suggest 'unknown' connection type instead of 'other' #11

Closed jkarlin closed 10 years ago

jkarlin commented 10 years ago

There are times where it's difficult for the UA to determine what the connection type is. What should be the connection type in those cases? Unknown is more accurate than other.

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

Agree, 'unknown' makes sense there. Just to be clear, we probably just need to come up with a good definition for how it differs form "none" and "other". I.e., the connection is established, but the type can't be determined.

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

@jkarlin if you have a concrete situation where this comes up, that would be really helpful.

jkarlin commented 10 years ago

It's probably possible to get all of these types on all of the platforms that browsers run on, but there are several cases in Chromium (e.g., desktop) where bluetooth and cellular are not distinguished. We may fill them all out eventually but it will take time.

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

@jkarlin for your review: https://github.com/w3c/netinfo/pull/12

I've kept other, because it's slightly different: it means "connection type is known, but it's not in the list of enums". Hope that works for you.

jkarlin commented 10 years ago

Perfect, thank you.