Re: skeleton Geolocation API

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On the lastPosition attribute, I have gotten some feedback from UX people
>>> that dialog a modal permission dialog for this synchronous API is not
>>> ideal.
>>> I hate to do this, but could we work through the use case for this again.
>>> Is it simply to avoid the cost of an asynchronous callback?
>>
>> Yes, it is to be able to show something immediately in the case where
>> you have an old value from a previous call to the API.
>>
>> Perhaps the implementation could just return null in the case where
>> permission has not been granted to that origin yet?
>
>
> That means it will only return an non-null position if the system has a
> location available, and permission has been granted (and remembered)
> previously?

Yeah. Which still seems likely if the API is successful.

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