Closed marcoscaceres closed 2 months ago
There are a number of factual inaccuracies in this proposal:
I am not opposed to asking whether work on this specification is worth doing but I don't believe the process here is the right venue for that.
Corrected above. There are no implementations of this spec.
Previous erroneously claimed Chromium.
[[ The process of rescinding, obsoleting, superseding, or restoring a Recommendation can be initiated either by a request from the Team or via a request from any of the following:
Since we do have an active Working Group, such request is misplaced.
Ok, so yes.. Let me close this, and send file a bug on DAS instead.
Hello TAG!
I'm requesting that the TAG consider the following specification:
be considered by the TAG for:
NB: This is not a recommendation yet, but I'm requesting TAG action now regardless.
The rationale for why the above action should be taken is as follows:
Both Mozilla and WebKit have expressed negative standards positions and have no intention of implementing the API, hence it will never advance past Candidate Recommendation. Mozilla's standards position states:
WebKit has also rejected the Geolocation Sensor API for similar reasons, citing duplication and no significant improvements over the existing API.
Additional reasons for obsoleting this API include the lack of adoption and implementation beyond Chromium browsers, which leads to site compatibility problems and developer confusion. This confusion is compounded by the document being on the W3C Recommendation track, as external parties and developers might believe this will become an actual W3C recommendation, despite there being no chance of this happening due to the lack of interest from other implementers.
This specification was produced by the Device and Sensors Working Group.
The following specifications have dependencies on this specification:
The following implementations of this specification are known:
Thank you for considering this request.