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Re:New in Chrome 70 by gsnedders on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:20AM (#18247635)
> FWIW the battery api was first specified when people were still hoping that building phone widgets, launchers etc would be done with web technologies. For such usage, having battery api access in a standard way was of course a necessity.

And it was done by Mozilla people working on FFOS, specifically. They had no intention of exposing it to web content IIRC.

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Re:New in Chrome 70 by earthscienceman on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:29AM (#18247712)
I still see FFOS as ahead of its time. I really wish it would have worked out better.There's all this jostelling happening between the role of software based apps vs. the role of web content/apps on devices... but in the end every day I see more and more content being served through the web. As browser integration improves (through things like 'web bluetooth') I think we're creeping more closely to the browser essentially being an app sandbox for your hardware/OS.

Now, whether this is good or not is left as an exercise to the reader.

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