Re: Permissions API vs local APIs

Agreed, I think we need a backwards compatible solution until the
permission API gets some traction but once Mozilla ships it I think new
APIs should just use the permission API.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Michael van Ouwerkerk <
mvanouwerkerk@google.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
>> > I agree with Jonas. Extending the permission API to give developers a
>> single
>> > place to check with a single consistent style seems like the right way
>> to
>> > go.
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>> Yet others at Google are pushing the expose them twice strategy...
>> Perhaps because the Permissions API is not yet ready?
>>
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> Yes, we wanted to ensure this is in the Push API because that seems to
> have more implementation momentum from browser vendors than the Permissions
> API. We didn't want developers to do hacky things in the meantime. I agree
> that once the Permissions API has critical mass, that should be the single
> place for checking permissions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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>> --
>> https://annevankesteren.nl/
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Received on Friday, 8 May 2015 02:25:03 UTC