- From: Lars Erik Bolstad <lbolstad@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:32:22 +0200
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- CC: public-geolocation@w3.org
Thanks Dom, that would be great. Lars Erik Den 08.08.13 15:35, skrev Dominique Hazael-Massieux: > Hi all, > > As you may remember [0], the Geolocation API spec has been stuck in > Proposed Recommendation [1] since more than a year due to its dependency > on WebIDL, combined with lack of actual support for WebIDL semantics in > its implementations. > > Recently, the W3C Director chose to promote a specification in a similar > situation (Web Storage) to Recommendation status: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2013JulSep/0019.html > and follow up discussions on > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/2013JulSep/0057.html > [Member-only links unfortunately] > > Part of that decision was to demote the dependency on WebIDL to its > purely syntactic form, without asserting that implementations also fully > follow the associated semantics. > > I would like to offer to submit a similar transition for the Geolocation > API, and will proceed with such an offer unless I hear objections in the > upcoming week; explicit support for that proposal would also be very > useful. > > Thanks, > > Dom > > 0. > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2012Sep/0000.html > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-geolocation-API-20120510/ > > >
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