Feature string for Geolocation

Hi Geolocation WG,

I'm writing to request a non-normative addition to the Geolocation 
specification.

In order to enable geolocation in W3C Widgets, Opera is currently using 
a "feature declaration" in the configuration document of a widget. 
Essentially, the request to enable a geo-location in a widget looks like:

<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets">
   <feature name="http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/" />
</widget>

In the widgets space, we are starting to see fragmentation wrt the 
feature string UA's use to enable geolocation. If the geolocation 
specification could give some authoritative guidance, that would likely 
resolve the fragmentation issue.

My personal opinion is to use a simple and version-less namespace, like 
the ones currently used for XML namespaces:

http://www.w3.org/ns/geolocation-api

Kind regards,
Marcos

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Marcos Caceres
Opera Software

Received on Tuesday, 3 August 2010 05:34:47 UTC