Re: Drop lastPosition from Geolocation?

On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> I like the modifiedSince option, but I do have a question. Right now,
> lastPosition allows you to quickly fallback to some default action if
> lastPositon is null or too old.
>
> In the async solution, the only way to achieve the same thing is by
> both specifying modifiedSince and setting timeout to 0, right? This
> would force the UA to immediately invoke the errorCallback (with error
> TIMEOUT or POSITION_UNAVAILABLE?) in case it does not have a fresh
> enough cached position. What happens if the page does not have
> permission? I think the errorCallback should be immediately invoked
> with error PERMISSION_ERR, right?


Right, if the document isn't given permission to use  
navigator.geolocation, then the errorCallback, if set, will be called  
with the PERMISSION_DENIED error code.