- From: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:08:21 -0700
- To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Cc: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> however, i still think the implementations should take the timeout >>>> starting >>>> point to mean "after the user has granted permission" for many >>>> reasons, >>>> one >>>> being this can not be emulated by window.setTimeout. >>> >>> Ok...but I'm still struggling to find an example where this behavior >>> would be useful. Do you have a concrete example? >> >> >> I can not. >> >> however, i did mention the weird user interactions we get if the >> timeout is >> based on invocation time -- that is, the permission dialog could be >> accepted >> at the same time that the timeout happens. The user would think >> that they >> just approved the request, and expect that the ua starts doing >> geolocation >> stuff. This is exactly the test case a tester of mine hit, and what inspired my re-thinking of the entire matter. > Ok, let's do it as you suggest. Unless anyone else objects, I will > update the spec and post a link to the diff. Thanks.
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