[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 50566] Delay starting geolocation request until permission has been granted or denied

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50566





--- Comment #4 from John Knottenbelt <jknotten at chromium.org>  2010-12-06 08:26:28 PST ---
The motivation for this change is primarily to make the code that starts the requests to be the same irrespective of whether it had to wait for permission to be set. 

For example, one difference, which is not easily testable with the current design of the Geolocation Mocks, is what happens if a page has two iframes, one of which is authorised for geolocation and has a watch started. If the second iframe requests a cached position, it should first get authorisation from the user, and then get the cached position that may have been stored in the Geolocation object thanks to the first iframe's request (if it meets the maxmium-age requirements).

There is also a discussion of some of these issues here: 

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2009Mar/0068.html

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