Re: PositionError - DOMString message

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:
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>> 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

Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 14:53:34 UTC