- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:49:40 -0700
- To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Cc: public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
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.
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