[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 56468] [Symbian][Qt] Webkit 2.1 requires Location capability

Thu Mar 17 02:13:50 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56468

Janne Koskinen <koshuin at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Janne Koskinen <koshuin at gmail.com>  2011-03-17 02:13:50 PST ---
Right. This means checking the capabilities in Webkit geolocation API backend in Symbian. If capability is missing return PERMISSION_DENIED http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html#permission_denied_error .

As you know missing capabilities are already reported by S60 emulator environment so I'm not sure if additional notification to developer is required other than document this requirement. Maybe something similar should be added to Qt Creator simulator environment. If wanted, in debug mode, printing out a warning is an option. Problem here is that we don't build Webkit for debug due to it's size. i.e. if there would be a print it would have to go to release code.

Now how to evaluate the importance of this issue. We can assume that not everyone has built QtWebkit based browser application on top of Qt 4.6.3. Binary Break then can be limited to applications using services that have geolocation or introduces geolocation later. My concern is in latter as we don't really know which services will introduce geolocation and neither does the developer. For this I'd say this is very high risk issue and blocker is the correct assessment.

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