Permissions-Policy: ambient-light-sensor directive
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The HTTP Permissions-Policy header ambient-light-sensor directive controls whether the current document is allowed to gather information about the amount of light in the environment around the device through the AmbientLightSensor interface.
Specifically, where a defined policy blocks use of this feature, AmbientLightSensor() constructor calls will throw a DOMException of type SecurityError.
Syntax
Permissions-Policy: ambient-light-sensor=<allowlist>;
<allowlist>-
A list of origins for which permission is granted to use the feature. See
Permissions-Policy> Syntax for more details.
Default policy
The default allowlist for ambient-light-sensor is self.
Specifications
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- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.