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Re: geolocation.clearWatchAll()

From: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:26:10 -0700
Message-ID: <278fd46c0810031026v584aaef7t983370860d0b0ff8@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Andrei Popescu" <andreip@google.com>
Cc: "Doug Turner" <doug.turner@gmail.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org> 

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com> wrote:
>> Part of the reason for the singleton structure of the Geolocation API
>> is compatibility with
>
> With? :)

Sorry... computers suck.

A design goal for the Geolocation was to support pages that have
decoupled scripts running on them, such as widgets or third-party
libraries like Prototype. It would be unfortunate for one such script
to be able to affect another by using this API.

- a
Received on Friday, 3 October 2008 17:26:48 GMT

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