- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:54:58 -0700
- To: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>
- Cc: "Andrei Popescu" <andreip@google.com>, timeless@gmail.com, public-geolocation@w3c.org, "Nick Brachet" <nbrachet@skyhookwireless.com>
On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On the lastPosition attribute, I have gotten some feedback from UX >> people >> that dialog a modal permission dialog for this synchronous API is >> not ideal. >> I hate to do this, but could we work through the use case for this >> again. >> Is it simply to avoid the cost of an asynchronous callback? > > Yes, it is to be able to show something immediately in the case where > you have an old value from a previous call to the API. > > Perhaps the implementation could just return null in the case where > permission has not been granted to that origin yet? That means it will only return an non-null position if the system has a location available, and permission has been granted (and remembered) previously?
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