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Vibration API

• marquis 14y ago
  While a nice feature for games, in particular, can this be disabled in Firefox? It seems it would affect battery life.
  • NameNickHN 14y ago
    The browser should offer some kind of permission system (like with the GPS sensor) that would ask the user if a website has permissions to access the vibrate API.
    • sjtgraham 14y ago
      That's kind of ridiculous "example.com wants permission to make your phone vibrate".
      • MiguelHudnandez 14y ago
        It's just like using location information. There are cases where it might be appropriate, such as web-based chat, or webmail. But there are many more cases where it would not be appropriate.
      • RKearney 14y ago
        What's kind of ridiculous is every advertisement under the sun begins vibrating the device.
  • cpeterso 14y ago
    You can toggle Firefox's "dom.vibrator.enabled" about:config pref.
• tobylane 14y ago
  I'm fearing this could be the new <marquee> or <blink>, or because iPods (and iPads?) don't have vibrate it won't be used.
• escaped_reddit 14y ago
  Misleading title is misleading.
  • untog 14y ago
    It's called "Vibration API" and it's an article about a Vibration API.
• untog 14y ago
  I can see this being used for games, but that's about it. Until we have web pages running as background tasks, it's not going to be used for a lot.
  • codewright 14y ago
    >Until we have web pages running as background tasks That would make the Grooveshark HTML5 app 99% more useful than it currently is (not at all).
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