[locationaware-specs] Icon Design

[Ryan Sarver]

Totally agreed. We haven't had time to spec everything out fully yet,
but there have always been plans to have dialogues to do privacy
management. I have spent some time mocking up possible UIs to handle
this fairly unique type of access.

One of the big issues we will need to tackle is figuring out how to make
UIs that are intuitive but not cumbersome or onerous. The toughest part
is that we may not be dealing with a binary yes/no response. Sites
should be able to request a user's location at different accuracies and
a user should be able to permit requests at different accuracies, so the
UI would need to reflect both of those sides and handle it gracefully.

I am hoping to start posting some content to the wiki in the next few
weeks about this, but first I wanted to tackle the use cases. 

Coming from the mobile side, can you give some bullet point use cases
that make sense to you?

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On 4/4/07, Doug Turner <dougt at meer.net> wrote:
> might be a good idea to read my last email.

oh i will, at some point. just want to throw some "slow down" signs at
people to buy me time to get to reading it.

> I am indeed suggesting a
> dialog when a site asks for location info and that icon would be
> something that would allow you to change your current privacy
settings.

sorry. part of my email should be seen as a hint that dialogs are bad.
e.g. the annoying dialog "this site wants to load some insecure
content, do you care? [yes] [no] [I have no idea]"

The dialog is useless. Show me the site first, if it's broken and
explains why I care, then I'll ask for the insecure content.

Similarly, if the site doesn't explain to the user why it wants my
location, then I'd rather not give it. but I can't know until the page
loads. so asking first w/ a modal dialog is just annoying.

for another fun example, please see the "site wants to give you a
cookie dialog". which modern browsers (but not the one I inherited)
are finally starting to abandon. (for people unfamiliar w/ gecko's
trail of tears, gecko like crashing when you played w/ that dialog,
and the fact was that there were no useful answers to it, so it was
finally removed from modern xul based geckos).

> Of course, we probably need to spec this out a bit more than my last
> email, right.? :-)

haven't read it. i need to sleep.
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