ISSUE-69: Drop lastPosition?
Drop lastPosition?
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- GeoAPI V1
- Raised by:
- Doug Turner
- Opened on:
- 2009-07-20
- Description:
- From: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Nov/0145.html
"I would like to remove it because: 1) synchronous API are impossible to deal with from a UI/Security POV. 2) do not see the performance win they are supposedly have."
More in thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Nov/thread.html#msg145
Conclusion: lastPosition was dropped from the spec. Instead, the 'maximumAge' attribute was added. It allows a client to obtain the last known position in an asynchronous fashion.
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