Re: [whatwg] The behaviour of Notification.requestPermission() in Workers

2013-10-24 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nik...@gmail.com wrote: The easiest solution for implementors and authors is to make the requestPermission() call in a HTML page before spawning a worker or registering a service worker. Inside the Worker scope we then have two options: 1)

Re: [whatwg] The behaviour of Notification.requestPermission() in Workers

2013-10-24 Thread Andrew Wilson
Agreed with Anne - I don't see the value in exposing a non-functional requestPermission(). Certainly on Chrome (which only allows invoking requestPermission in the context of user input to prevent abuse) we would be unlikely to support requestPermission() from workers, at least unless we decide

Re: [whatwg] The behaviour of Notification.requestPermission() in Workers

2013-10-24 Thread Tobie Langel
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nik...@gmail.com (mailto:nsm.nik...@gmail.com) wrote: The easiest solution for implementors and authors is to make the requestPermission() call in a HTML page before

Re: [whatwg] The behaviour of Notification.requestPermission() in Workers

2013-10-24 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Tobie Langel tobie.lan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Given that Notificaiton.permission exists, I'm not sure what the additional value of Notification.requestPermission() in a worker context would be.

[whatwg] The behaviour of Notification.requestPermission() in Workers

2013-10-23 Thread Nikhil Marathe
Hello, There has been considerable interest in exposing the Notification API on workers, and especially service workers. The behaviour of Notification.requestPermission() requires some consensus. The problem of requestPermission() on workers is that the user agent may not always be in a position