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Generic Sensors WebDriver extension commands

Category

Capabilities (Fugu)

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 120)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This exposes WebDriver commands for creating, removing, querying and setting readings for so-called virtual sensors: sensors that do not depend on underlying hardware or operating system support and can be used for testing.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/w3c/sensors/pull/470
• Firefox: No signal — Gecko does not implement the Generic Sensor APIs.
• Safari: No signal — WebKit does not implement the Generic Sensor APIs.
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1278377

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