3 First Public Working Drafts by The Device and Sensors Working Group

The Device and Sensors Working Group has published 3 First Public Working Drafts of new sensor APIs to read data from accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.

These APIs, based on the group’s Generic Sensor API, give access to the low-level sensors needed to build higher-level APIs such as the Device Orientation API, but also open up new use cases so far unavailable to the Web Platform, e.g. via innovative use of the magnetometer.

Publication – W3C News

3 First Public Working Drafts by The Device and Sensors Working Group

Sensors on the Web: APIs Under Wide Review

The Device and Sensors Working Group has published a Working Draft of the Generic Sensor API, a framework to bring support for any kind of sensors to the Open Web Platform. An updated Working Draft of the Ambient Light API illustrates a concrete sensor API based on this framework.

The Working Group has determined that these APIs are now advanced enough that they would benefit from getting wide review from the broader community and welcome feedback from implementors and developers on both these documents.

Publication – W3C News

Sensors on the Web: APIs Under Wide Review