- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 07:04:08 -0700
- To: Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu>
- Cc: Nick Doty <npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu>, public-geolocation@w3.org
On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: > I also agree that more information is better. more truthful information is better, but since people will lie or won't be very accurate, and the UAs cant validate, this "more information" is actually putting the user at risk. I worry about logic like: Ah "maps.google.com" always asks me for my location for "placing my location on a map", and I see that same thing on "evil.com", so I must be safe. > In the end, we cannot force services to offer meaningful > information, so if this is truly useless, we're no worse off Again, we are worse off -- we are having the browser (something completely trusted by the user), present text which can clearly lie. Because of these issues, UAs are bot going to want to implement this. Furthermore, websites can already present content that explains why they need to get the location from the user. Doug Turner Mozilla
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