[whatwg] Device proximity and light events

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jul 11 15:27:17 PDT 2012


On Fri, 4 May 2012, Doug Turner wrote:
>
> I have added two new events to Firefox which allow web apps to detect 
> light and proximity changes.
> 
> http://dougturner.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/device-proximity-sensor/ 
> http://dougturner.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/device-light-sensor/

I spoke to Doug about this on IRC and for now I'm not going to spec this 
in the HTML spec. It would probably be good for these events to be 
combined with the Geo and device orientation events and all specced 
together, but I'll leave that up to whoever specs them. :-)

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