- From: Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:18:12 -0400
- To: Kis, Zoltan <zoltan.kis@intel.com>, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com>
- Cc: Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On September 4, 2014 at 4:14:57 PM, Florian Bösch (pyalot@gmail.com) wrote: > This is an issue to use, for a user. > > - http://codeflow.org/issues/permissions.html > - http://codeflow.org/issues/permissions.jpg This sets up an unrealistic straw-man. Are there any real sites that would need to show all of the above all at the same time? > - In firefox it's a succession of popup > > It's also an issue to use for a developer, because the semantics and > methods for requesting, getting, being denied and managing permissions > differ. Sometimes permissions aren't query able. It is more worthwhile addressing the above, so to avoid the sequence of pop-ups. > It's my stated opinion that ignoring these issue will not make them go > away. And delaying addressing UX and consistency issues just contributes to > a proliferation of bad UX and inconsistent and difficult to use APIs. Absolutely, we should be addressing them at the API level. For instance, adding a way to determine if the permission has been granted in Geo without actually needing to use the API.
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