1094346 - Geolocation documentation needs cleanup and mention of Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20141102004001

Steps to reproduce:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation
As a user I wanted to know about permissions on Firefox OS for geolocation. My app got rejected saying "You need to specify the 'geolocation' permission in the manifest for it to work." without any link to help me.


Actual results:

I only find a JavaScript example for addons (which I find out after some digging as the section is not marked anyhow to apply for addons?!).
I can't find anything special for Firefox OS.


Expected results:

As a user I want to be warned that geolocation requires an additional permission for Firefox OS apps.
As a user I want to be able to ignore addon development specific code by having it under a section "Geolocation For Addon Developers".

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

So the following work has to be done:
* Update the compat table (to include Fx OS) on
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation
* Make clear in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation what is add-ons related, what is Fx OS. Add info about permission.
* Update our manifest/permission for Apps with the information.

I'm ni-ing Chris has he probably has more precise links about where must the permission info be added.

Comment 2

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

You've got most of them covered, but I think we also need to mention this information on

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/gather_and_modify_data/Plotting_yourself_on_the_map
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/gather_and_modify_data#Location

Comment 3

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

I think this is no longer relevant, please reopen if I'm wrong.