Re: [User Context] GeoLoc missing API for user justification in prompts from Andrei Popescu on 2014-05-30 (public-geolocation@w3.org from May 2014)

From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:15:34 +0100
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, timeless <timeless@gmail.com>, "public-geolocation@w3.org" <public-geolocation@w3.org>, Indie UI <public-indie-ui@w3.org>, "mandyam@quicinc.com" <mandyam@quicinc.com>
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:10 AM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
> > I've never seen a site do this. Perhaps you have an example?
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> I've seen Google Maps do this at some point.
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> > Even so, disparate UI treatments are more confusing to users that
> commonly formatted UI controls.
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> They're also a huge spoofing risk as the message looks like it comes
> from the UA rather than the page. We should not do this.
>

Completely agreed. That's actually been the deciding argument last time we
discussed this topic.

Thanks,
Andrei


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Received on Friday, 30 May 2014 13:16:02 UTC