- From: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:04:54 -0700
- To: Nick Doty <npdoty@gmail.com>
- Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, Alissa Cooper <acooper@cdt.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, public-geolocation@w3.org
On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Nick Doty wrote: > I'd like to add my voice as one that would hope for some intended > usage notification in the API. As a web developer, I definitely > want some standard way to let my users know what I'm going to be > doing with their location information and to have that promise in > front of them at the time they're making that decision. A dialog > that pops up without any context on what my site will do with a > user's location information will make my users uncomfortable. Given > the potentially widely varying ways that the User Agents may > implement asking the user for permission, there may be no way for me > to consistently get my intended usage information to the user so > that they can make an appropriate decision. Have your site display a JavaScript alert (or some other UI) explaining things before your javascript code uses navigator.geolocation. Problem solved. Thanks, -- Greg
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