Security Engineering Meeting - May 3rd

2012-05-02 Thread Ian Melven
Our weekly Security Engineering meeting is open to the Mozilla community and will take place on Thursday May 3 at 3 PM PDT. https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering Our standing agenda is : * Review currently active (P1) features against their established milestones, identify any block

WebAPI Security Discussion: Geolocation

2012-05-02 Thread Lucas Adamski
Please reply-to dev-webapps. Yes, its a bit odd to be discussion a mature API but we should make explicit its behavior for install applications. Name of API: Geolocation API Reference: _https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation_ Brief purpose of API: Obtain current location of user Ge

Re: Types of applications: updated

2012-05-02 Thread Jim Straus
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