Intent to Prototype: Permissions Policy for Device Attributes API

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Contact emails

pch...@google.com

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/WebApiDevice/blob/main/DeviceAttributesPermissionsPolicyExplainer.md

Specification

None

Summary

The new Permissions Policy enables restricting access to the Device Attributes API. Additionally, in Isolated Web Apps, the requirement for admin policy is removed.

Blink component

Blink>Managed

Motivation

The Device Attributes API allows web developers to query information about the device. This information can be used for context-based configuration or other device-aware use cases such as licensing. The goal of this change is to make the Device Attributes API usable with less configuration, while still maintaining administrators' control over what applications are allowed to access the API.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/WICG/WebApiDevice/blob/main/DeviceAttributesPermissionsPolicyExplainer.md

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None

Debuggability

None

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name on about://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/4843520522977280?gate=5090900633714688

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