On May 2, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Jim Straus wrote: > Lucas - > On Background Apps and just to be explicit. If we assume that Background > apps always have a UI component that shows up in the home screen, then can we > state that when a background component needs a permission that hasn't been > granted that the UI component will be opened and the prompt occur there? If > we allow Background only apps, I'm not sure where the permission prompt will > occur. > Actually, we may want to explicitly state that if an app that is not the > currently viewed app and needs permissions that it the app needing the > permission is made the currently viewed app. > -Jim Straus
That's an interesting question. Could another approach be that the app needs to have focus to obtain the permissions, and that permission is blocked until it becomes foreground? I think a lot of the permissions really need apps to be focused before they can be granted anyway per our notification model. Its a pretty complicated problem though, depending on if you think of these as apps, or as services. Lucas. _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
