- From: Raphael Kubo da Costa via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:36:48 +0000
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
rakuco has just submitted a new pull request for https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation: == Make requestPermission()'s behavior more backwards-compatible == The changes added in #123 have introduced some behavior changes to the two requestPermission() operations that were not originally intended. Although the original steps were heavily modeled after the WebKit implementation and do not follow what other specifications normally do, some behavior changes from #123 have not been discussed and have been made more backwards-compatible: - Calls to "request permission to use" may return "prompt", while the previous version implicitly converted anything that was not "granted" to "denied" (possibly because the current Safari implementation shows a modal dialog asking for access, so users can only allow or deny the permission request, so remaining at the "prompt" state is not possible). From a specification perspective, if a user has not explicitly granted the permission request, "prompt" is essentially the same as "denied" anyway, so we now explicitly set anything that is not "granted" to "denied" again. - The previous steps only checked for transient activation if users had not made an explicit permission choice yet, which basically means that the permission state is set to "prompt". This change restores this behavior by first checking the current permission states for all required permission names and only throwing a NotAllowed exception if one of them is "prompt" and there is no transient activation. In other words, if a permission is either "granted" or "denied" then requestPermission() will resolve to one of the values without requiring transient activation. While here, refer to the right definitions of "granted" and "denied": use the PermissionState enum definitions, which is what the Permissions API algorithms we invoke return, rather than the non-Web IDL definitions that these enum values correspond to. See https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/pull/129 -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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