- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:41:18 -0400
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Simon Heckmann <simon at simonheckmann.de>wrote: > > Some challenges include: > > > > * how to justify the request to the user being asked to grant the > privileges > > starting with a text string and a link to more information > > Well, this is what I thought of: The users visit a website they have never > visited before. A notifications pops up allowing them to set all permissions > required for this page. The users might not trust the site yet so they do > not grant all permissions immediately. There's a more common issue: when you ask me for a bunch of permissions at once, I don't know why you want them. This happens constantly with Android apps: you install a simple notepad or clock app, and it'll ask for Internet access and the ability to make phone calls, and you don't know why. This is why--in general--I like the model so far: the user is asked for permission in response to actually doing something that uses a feature. In the notepad app, you're asked for permission to access the internet when you select "sync notes to your desktop PC"; it's immediately obvious why it's asking for it. (That's an Android example, of course, not a web app example.) Hopefully the ultimate solution will deal with both, allowing UAs the option of asking all at once or on-demand, depending on the situation. (Some permissions inherently have to be asked in advance, like Web Notifications, which doesn't happen in response to a user action.) -- Glenn Maynard
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