- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:42:34 +0300
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
>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 Though, even if the .message is for developers only, it could be localized. Mozilla does that for different kinds of errors or warnings which are printed to error console. -Olli
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