- From: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:03:38 -0400
- To: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <chaals@opera.com>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-webapi@w3.org
The WebAPI WG seems like the best venue. - Original message - Hi, Chaals- Charles McCathieNevile wrote (on 5/27/08 6:3... On 5/27/08, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > > Hi, Chaals- > > Charles McCathieNevile wrote (on 5/27/08 6:34 PM): >> >> On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:38:37 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I could not find record of any such objection in the Advisory >>> Committee mailing list archives, or any record of an official W3C >>> decision on this point. As Team contact, could you please explain who >>> made this decision and on what basis? >> >> In which case I presume that someone used their ability to reply to the >> Team privately instead of being open about what they wanted. This >> disturbs me a little since it increases the resources and coordination >> required, IMHO, to do what is a pretty simple piece of work. > > I think you may be overstating how simple this is, for what it's worth. > Exposing coordinates sounds simple, sure... but the security and > privacy implications are stickier, as is the legal landscape (both in > terms of privacy laws and of IPR). > > >> For the record, Opera would also like to see the geolocation work take >> place inside the webAPI group and is unhappy that it has been removed >> from the proposed charter for Web Apps. > > Noted. I will convey your sentiments to the Team. > > Regards- > -Doug Schepers > W3C Team Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
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