Re: Permissions API vs local APIs

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
> wrote:
> > Over in
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2015May/0006.html
> > Jonas pointed out that having two APIs for doing the same thing is
> > "nuts". We should probably decide whether we go ahead with the
> > Permissions API or keep doing permission checks on a per-API basis.
>
> I personally think having a single API, rather than half a dozen
> navigator.*.hasPermission() APIs is better. If for no other reason
> than that's it's likely going to be significantly easier to keep a
> single API consistent, than the half-dozen different ones.
>
> I'll also note that the reception on twitter from developers for the
> permission API seemed quite positive.
>

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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