[whatwg] Proposal for a web application descriptor

[Cameron Heavon-Jones]

On 05/05/2011, at 8:30 AM, timeless wrote:

> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals at opera.com> wrote:
> 
>> In practice, even given something as simple
>> as twitter's geolocation request I *sometimes* allow it to know where I am
>> and sometimes don't.
> 
> I'm hoping we'll eventually move to a model where users are able to
> provide default values for things, e.g. "If anyone asks [about
> GeoPositioning], I'm in Paris" (I'm currently sick in HEL, but no one
> needs to know that).

That sounds like a pretty cool feature, whoever said that the UA had to tell the truth! :)

It definitely puts the user in control.

cam