- From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:52:48 +0100
- To: "Doug Turner" <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> If I recall correctly, the message attribute on the position error was >>> suppose to be for debugging purposes. However, it was brought up that >>> this >>> message may be displayed to the user. Should this string be localized? >>> Should we change the draft spec to suggest that this string is localized >>> and can be displayed to the user? >>> >> >> Hmm, not sure. I think most implementations will end up using >> different strings. If those strings are shown to the user, then the >> error messages that the user sees will be quite technical and will >> also look different depending on the UA that she is happening to be >> using at the time, which may be somewhat confusing. I'm thinking that >> the applications that use the Geo API are in a better position to >> handle the UI for the error situations, so we should not encourage >> them to just print out the API error messages. >> >> Andrei > > > Then I guess I am not sure of the value of such an error message in our API. > I see some value for application developers who want to debug their apps. Andrei
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