Tack on a .yep boolean onto every API surface? On 10/19/12 2:25 PM, "Brian LeRoux" <b...@brian.io> wrote:
>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/s >ystem/Capabilities.html >[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab2-20070430/
