1057169 - Implement Network Information API on desktop platforms

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, defect, P3)

Description

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

This is only really useful if we can detect when we are tethering, and when we are not. Otherwise we would essentially always just claim that the user was on a fast connection which isn't really useful for developers.

However we could detect that we are tethering the same way Android does. Information here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23877476/android-why-connectivitymanager-isactivenetworkmetered-always-returning-true/23879816#23879816

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

This exposes too much end user information as-is. See also https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/117.

Comment 2

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

Anne, do we still implement this on Fx Android? If so, plans to remove it there?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Network_Information_API#Browser_compatibility currently says supported in Fx Android 31 (and behind a pref on Desktop). Is that still accurate?

We probably need to update the docs to make the standards position more clear.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

Thanks Florian. I filed bug 1637922.