[whatwg] Geolocation API Proposal

Brian Smith brian at briansmith.org
Thu Mar 6 08:56:20 PST 2008


Aaron Boodman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Krzysztof Żelechowski 
> <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote:
> >  The intersection of this interface with HTML is empty  and it will 
> > always be because it does not hook on anything to declare.
> >  It qualifies as a browser extension.
> 
> How is it different than the HTML5 database API?

It isn't. See
http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/02/19/bloaty-parts-of-the-whatwg-
html5-specification-that-should-be-removed/

In particular, see Ian Hickson's comment. He already acknoledged that
this stuff doesn't belong in the HTML specification, and the only reason
that the current HTML 5 spec has so much junk in it is because nobody
else is writing seperate specs for these features. 

Regards,
Brian




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