Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-13 Thread Anselm Hannemann
On Friday, 14. December 2012 at 08:52, Karl Dubost wrote: > > Le 14 déc. 2012 à 17:51, Stan a écrit : > > If most of the users do this right now, it does not mean they are happy > > with this, > > > it doesn't mean they are unhappy about it. Or more exactly that a fraction of > them can eve

Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-13 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 14 déc. 2012 à 17:51, Stan a écrit : > If most of the users do this right now, it does not mean they are happy with > this, it doesn't mean they are unhappy about it. Or more exactly that a fraction of them can even look for such a feature. > Second, user accounts are based on e-mails as a

Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-13 Thread Stan
Hi, There are many points. First, I don't think it's convenient for users to register themselves on many sites, which they visit occasionally. If most of the users do this right now, it does not mean they are happy with this, this is bacause there is no other, more simple way (as simple as just

Re: [whatwg] A plea to Hixie to adopt

2012-12-13 Thread Tantek Çelik
This was meant to follow-up to Henri's message[1]: [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-December/038219.html but for some reason that didn't make it to my archives so I'm replying to the latest message on this thread that did. tl;dr: Having previously opposed the additi

Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-13 Thread Tobie Langel
On Dec 13, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Stan wrote: >> >> The reasoning for this API is the need to uniquely identify every device >> in many web-applications. > > Why do you need to identify the device? What about if the user uses the > same browser profile on mult

Re: [whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Stan wrote: > > The reasoning for this API is the need to uniquely identify every device > in many web-applications. Why do you need to identify the device? What about if the user uses the same browser profile on multiple devices? Or multiple browser profiles on the same d

[whatwg] API for unique identification of devices (mobile/tablet/pc)

2012-12-13 Thread Stan
Hi, I'd like to proprose an API to get a unique device's ID in HTML5. If some discussions/works do already exist on it, please let me know, I didn't find this stuff. In fact, a single method/property seems sufficient so far, say: window.navigator.deviceID. The property should return a string,