Re: Privacy considerations for implementors of the Geolocation API

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Doug Turner <dougt@dougt.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Adrian Bateman wrote:
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>> On Friday, November 12, 2010 10:21 PM, Doug Turner wrote:
>>> Hey Adrian!
>>>
>>> Yeah, probably misleading.  Basically, I think, we want to use the origin.
>>>
>>> f.e.  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/  ==>
>>> http://www.mozilla.com
>>>
>>> I think there was some panic about referencing documents that were not
>>> recommendations, but we were thinking about:
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>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/origin-0.html#origin
>>>
>>> Does this make sense?
>>> Doug
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>> Hi Doug,
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>> I understand the serialisation - I think the issue with the TAG is that the canonicalised origin isn't actually a URI so they wanted the language changed to clarify this. My problem is that there is a MUST requirement that UAs display this string but as far as I can see, nobody actually does (the implementations I've seen don't show the "http://" part).
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>> My question, therefore, is does it make sense that this is a MUST? Since we need to go back and change the language around URI anyway perhaps we could consider making these only SHOULDs.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adrian.
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>
> I'd like the consideration section to reflect the intent we had.  I would rather have us leave the MUST but change what we meant to be displayed to the user.  Maybe "HOST of the requesting document".  There are probably others with a better name for this field.
>

I just checked and Adrian is right, nobody shows the scheme part. I
think changing to say "host" is reasonable. Adrian, would be ok with
saying "host" and keeping this as a MUST?

Thanks,
Andrei

Received on Friday, 19 November 2010 15:16:31 UTC