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Created November 4, 2016 13:20

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Ambient Light Sensor landed in Chromium (this gist is a collection of useful bits I picked out of a w3c email thread)

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The Chrome Canary release with the Ambient Light Sensor is now out.

Here's how to experiment:

Get Chrome Canary at:

https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Enable the API by navigating to:

chrome://flags/#enable-generic-sensor
Experiment with the API, and let us know your feedback at:

https://github.com/w3c/ambient-light/issues

anssiko commented Nov 4, 2016

I'd extend credits and <3 to @rwaldron for contributing the J5 Sensor API as a starting point for this work, and for co-editing the Generic Sensor API specification.