On Friday, September 5, 2014, Kostiainen, Anssi <anssi.kostiainen@intel.com>
wrote:
> On 04 Sep 2014, at 23:18, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Absolutely, we should be addressing them at the API level.
>
> I guess you mean each API should address this in a way that fits the
> design of the particular API the best?
Correct. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
>
> And something like permissions.js could then be used to abstract away the
> differences and provide an API similar to that proposed by Mounir?
I would hope we wouldn't need that, but sure. It's a risk (reality?) that
we end up with inconsistencies across APIs.
>
> > For instance, adding a way to determine if the permission has been
> granted in Geo without actually needing to use the API.
>
> It seems as if Mounir’s proposal addresses exactly this requirement, but
> not at the “[Geolocation] API level”.
Which I'm personally not a huge fan of.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Anssi