722662 - Web Telephony:add duration attribute to the call object

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, defect)

Description

[Maria Angeles Oteo (:oteo)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22



Actual results:

The dialer application needs to keep track of the call duration even when the dialer is not active but the call is ongoing


Expected results:

 We suggest to have a call duration attribute in the call object in order to keep track of the call duration in the platform.

Comment 1

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to Maria Angeles Oteo from comment #0)
> The dialer application needs to keep track of the call duration even when
> the dialer is not active but the call is ongoing

Why would the dialer not be active when there's a call ongoing?

Comment 2

[Maria Angeles Oteo (:oteo)]

(In reply to Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon] from comment #1)
> (In reply to Maria Angeles Oteo from comment #0)
> > The dialer application needs to keep track of the call duration even when
> > the dialer is not active but the call is ongoing
> 
> Why would the dialer not be active when there's a call ongoing?

Because, for example, the user presses the Homescreen button and, as a consequence, the dialer goes to the background and the homescreen to the foreground. In that case, for instance, the homescreen could display a notification bar indicating that there is a ongoing call.

Comment 3

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

The dialer app would probably still need to be kept running, just in the background. It seems unlikely that we'll want to shut down such a critical app and reconstruct all it's state while a phone call is in progress.

Comment 4

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

I think we should let the dialer app deal with call duration. We can reopen if we change our minds.