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Remove note about sharing data between platform sensors (#482)
The original note was added in #267 and expanded in #347, but its advice is impractical: - Sharing the activated sensors objects between multiple browsing contexts/documents/windows means these Sensor objects could potentially be shared by contexts in different top-level traversables (i.e. different tabs). Furthermore, if "can expose sensor readings" passes for one context but not the other, "update sensor reading" would still invoke "report latest reading updated" with sensors that cannot expose sensor readings. - Similarly, if the latest reading map is shared between multiple contexts, an update would affect all contexts, including those for which "update sensor reading" should not have been invoked in the first place (e.g. two pages with the same origin share the latest readings map, but only one is visible; updates to the latest reading map would be accessible from the other as well). PR #267 also made the "platform sensor" concept used in this section per-browsing context (although in a very confusing way), which on its own is a stricter requirement than what the note allowed, so we can drop the note without making things less secure. Incidentally, this also gets rid of one of the usages of "browsing context" in the spec, which helps with #444.
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