Re: Should permission requests require a user gesture?

I responded on the GitHub thread.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
wrote:

> https://github.com/w3c/permissions/issues/77 tracks a suggestion to
> require a user gesture in navigator.permission.request() calls. I'd
> like to find a recommendation from this group for all new
> permission-requesting functions and then follow it for the particular
> function in the permissions API.
>
> Jan-Ivar's arguing that requiring a gesture hurts Firefox's permission
> model, and that other reasons to require a gesture are better handled
> through other browser UI.
>
> What do you folks think?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeffrey
>
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