- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:14:08 -0700
- To: "Chris Butler" <cbutler@dash.net>
- Cc: "Andrei Popescu" <andreip@google.com>, "Greg Bolsinga" <bolsinga@apple.com>, <olli@pettay.fi>, <public-geolocation@w3.org>
Looking at the defs., i do not see much of a difference between
PROVIDER_ERROR and NOT_FOUND (NOT_FOUND is just a special case of
PROVIDER_ERROR). Maybe we can roll these two together, and get
something like:
PERMISSION_DENIED
UNKNOWN_ERROR
POSITION_UNAVAILABLE
TIMEOUT
On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Chris Butler wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> One thought for future expansion: what about separating
> classifications
> of errors by 10s or 100s (in the case of HTTP)?
>
> Right now, there seems to be about three camps:
>
> * Not available - NOT_FOUND and maybe TIMEOUT
> * Permission - PERMISSION_ERROR
> * Unrecoverable error - PROVIDER_ERROR and UNKNOWN
>
> Thougths?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-geolocation-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-geolocation-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Andrei Popescu
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:35 AM
> To: Greg Bolsinga; olli@pettay.fi
> Cc: public-geolocation@w3.org
> Subject: Re: PositionError Requests
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
> wrote:
>> interface PositionError {
>> const unsigned short PERMISSION_ERROR = 1;
>> const unsigned short PROVIDER_ERROR = 2;
>> const unsigned short NOT_FOUND = 3;
>> const unsigned short TIMEOUT = 4;
>> const unsigned short UNKNOWN = 5;
>> readonly int code;
>
> 'code' would be unsigned short, as well.
>
> Andrei
>
>
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