495076 - geolocation.watchPosition() may call success callback synchronously

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[Steve Block]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.181.1 Safari/530.11
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The W3C spec requires that geolocation.watchPosition() should be asynchronous - it should return immediately and then invoke a callback. Currently,  geolocation.watchPosition() sometimes calls the success callback synchronously.

This seems to occur only when the implementation has a cached position and when  Geolocation permissions have been remembered.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Call geolocation.watchPosition()
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Actual Results:  
The success callback is called synchronously.

Expected Results:  
The success callback should be called asynchronously.

Comment 1

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

This is a mass change. Every comment has "assigned-to-new" in it.

I didn't look through the bugs, so I'm sorry if I change a bug which shouldn't be changed. But I guess these bugs are just bugs that were once assigned and people forgot to change the Status back when unassigning.

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Thanks Steve,

Bug 489813 will fix this bug.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0d8d6369655d