Intent to Prototype: battery-savings meta tag
Chris Harrelson
Contact emails
chri...@chromium.org, khusha...@chromium.org
Explainer
https://github.com/chrishtr/battery-savings/blob/master/explainer.md
Note: this intent-to-prototype only includes the <meta> tag at present. It does not include a media query.
Design docs
TAG review
None as yet
Summary
A meta tag allowing a site to recommend measures for the user agent to apply in order to save battery life and optimize CPU usage.
Motivation
Save battery life and optimize CPU usage for web apps, in ways that the user agent is better able to implement than the page itself.
Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
User agent measures to save battery and CPU may vary by agent, since this API is a hint rather than a description of an exact policy.
Gecko: No signal
WebKit: No signal
Web developers: Positive: pre-prototype testing in the lab yielded positive results on video-heavy sites.
Ergonomics
It should be very easy to adopt.
Activation
It should be very easy to adopt.
Security
None
Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes
Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No None as yet
Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5653874167775232
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