Re: What should be the long term behavior of a browser after a user chose allow/deny?

It all makes sense and I see why we won't want to spec out the behavior
after the prompt choice, from a UX perspective.

Thanks for the explanation Michael.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Michael van Ouwerkerk <
mvanouwerkerk@google.com> wrote:

> Hi Samuel, please find my comments inline.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Samuel Roldan <sroldan24@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what is the expected behavior of a browser after a user
>> choses, say, "deny" in the geo prompt. For how long should this choice
>> persist? Should it be:
>>
>> + Forever?
>> + For one day?
>> + For one week?
>>
>
> The specification does not  specify the time period. It is up to the
> browser vendors how they acquire user permission. The goal is to strike a
> balance between API usefulness and a good user experience. The API is more
> useful to developers if the user is asked repeatedly, because at some point
> they might give permission. But for users this might become a bad
> experience, it could be interpreted as nagging. An additional risk with
> repeated exposure is that users become blind to the requests, and just
> start ignoring them everywhere, making the API less useful for all
> developers.
>
> Looking at different browsers, it seems every device treats this
>> different. For instance, the following browsers won't ask for:
>>
>> + Safari: One day
>> + Chrome: Ever again.
>>
>> My question is due to the fact that I have a website and some users are
>> reporting that they do not see the prompt anymore and I'm not sure how to
>> make the prompt show again. (Doesn't seem possible from the client side
>> logic. One thing Chrome does better is, it provides an icon in the address
>> bar where you can reset your geolocation permissions.
>>
>
> In Desktop Safari there's a setting for this. Safari > Preferences >
> Privacy > Limit website access to location services:
> * Prompt for each website once each day
> * Prompt for each website one time only
> * Deny without prompting
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Samuel Roldan
>> www.sam3k.com
>> Tel 917.880.2580
>>
>
>


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