- From: Peter Kasting <pkasting@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:02:48 -0700
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > Yes, I'm not saying in-page click is a solution. It works for popups, sort > of, but I don't think it does for permission request notifications. > To be truly honest, requiring a user gesture probably doesn't work for rPH() because it doesn't actually work for window.open, or allowing executable files to download, or any other purpose we've keyed off in UAs so far. That's because a click is not at all a good indicator of some sort of of user understanding and intent. The only thing it buys you is the possibility that a visible UI change happens immediately after a user's click and thus that in theory the user _might_ be able to guess that the click triggered the UI change. In any case I am not suggesting we spec anything regarding user gestures for rPH() for now, it was an example of something we could try that isn't really possible to consider unless we give webpages some sort of way to check registration. Also, I happen to agree with Boris that prompting for permissions is not, in fact, less annoying than opening a new window. Making prompts be non-modal infobars does not mean they're suddenly friction-free and OK to show all the time. It's much harder to close an infobar, for example (no keyboard shortcuts or OS allowances). And the consequences of a user clicking "OK" randomly to close a "grant permission" infobar are much greater than the consequences of a user clicking a popup's close box. PK
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