- From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:25:06 +0200
- To: public-media-capture@w3.org
On 09/06/2013 12:56 PM, bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote: > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23128 > > Anne <annevk@annevk.nl> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |annevk@annevk.nl > > --- Comment #2 from Anne <annevk@annevk.nl> --- > Please see > http://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-notification-requestpermission and in > particular > http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/06/permissions-for-web-applications_30.html > > There's good reasons why we abandoned this path. Flash tried to do this, Java > tried, both are not very successful at conveying to the user what's going on. > Anne, your first link doesn't say that the approach was abandoned; it shows that in the notifications case, you have also given up on finding a better alternative. The second link is Roc's opinion; I respect that opinion, but disagree with the conclusion. Besides, our feet have been solidly planted on the "ask for permissions" path; if anything, this change helps alleviate the popup overload pain. As an IETF friend said in another context: "This is not about starting down the slippery slope. It's how far we slide into the muck at the bottom."
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