I'm not sure we have any disagreement then. Per https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/Security/SMS showing a user confirmation is a recommended mitigation, so *if* we could implement something like: explicit permission for SMS access + OS confirmation on send - would that work? Lucas.
On 8/6/2012 3:51 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Brian Smith <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I think we're being way too reliant on straight-up permission >>> prompts. Doing what the iOS 4+ does [1], providing a way to >>> reasonably integrate the SMS UI into your app, seems way better to >>> me than exposing an API that brings up an annoying prompt. >>> (Perhaps irrationally, permission prompts always seem more >>> annoying to me than "preview" prompts, which I frequently like as >>> a user as they are re-assuring.) >> I think you forgot to include the [1] reference. > [1] The first answer in: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10848/how-to-programmatically-send-sms-on-the-iphone > > - Brian _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
