On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: >>> 3) It seems the API is evolving in ways to also request permission >>> without then directly using that permission. It's not clear that is a >>> good idea. >> >> This is something that is already doable. If a webpage calls >> navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(), it doesn't need to do >> anything with the position (this can apply to roughly any API). The >> Notififcations API has an explicit call for requesting too. > > The Notifications API is a special case as is noted in its > specification. It's one of the few cases where we decided this was > acceptable.
On this point, I agree with Anne. Notifications doesn't get the option of an in-context request, and what we have there is the best we could do at the time. It is possible that we could do better; I've not given up on that just yet. >> Furthermore, >> allowing requests will open some new possibilities like requesting a >> 'paste' permission which can't be done today. > > If we do indeed need that we could add an API for it. But we should > first carefully consider if another approach is not better. I'd like to more directly encourage that as well. Asking permission in context has its risks, but out of context has relevancy problems. I'd rather we carefully examine every instance where we are tempted to ask users questions, because I don't believe that asking questions like that is good. Reducing the friction for adding new ways to bother users with questions is a drawback of the API. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
