On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM, 임동우 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why don't WebKit support the database of geolocation permissions? > (Record the user permission into database, and use it when user revisit the > web site.) > > > Most of major browsers who use WebKit are support this kind of feature. > > Chrome and Safari support this feature, and Android browser as well. > And as I know, Mobile Safari in iOS5 may support this. > > Vendors implement this feature by themselves, because WebKit does not > support it, > so the implementation and policy are slightly different each other. > Some vendors are implemented in porting layer of WebKit, the others are in > browser. > As I know, in Android, implementation of this feature in porting layer of > WebKit. > > > I think we'd better to implement this feature in WebCore. > Then we can prevent redundant implementation of each vendors. > This is intentional: as you noticed, each browser vendor may chose a different way of managing the Geolocation permissions. To allow for this freedom, I think the Geolocation permissions should not be in WebCore. > > > And, this feature is not violating the Geolocation spec. > This statement in the Geolocation spec. is told us that user permission > could be preserved. > "Those permissions that are acquired through the user interface and that > are preserved beyond the current browsing session must be revocable and user > agents must respect revoked permissions." ( > http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html#privacy_for_uas) > > That is not a specification of how the feature should be implemented, it is just a privacy consideration for implementors of the API. > > If most of major browsers support this feaure, and users prefer this kind > of interaction, > then I think there are no reason to hesitate to include this feature into > WebKit. > > I don't really agree. I think it should be left to each WebKit port / embedder to decide if and how to support this feature, so it doesn't belong in WebCore. Thanks, Andrei
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