774580 - Send the Geolocation status to web content

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/issues/2335

The lastest status bar spec specified a "Geolocation" that need to be shown when there is an app is currently using Geolocation.

We have permission prompt that go through System app (broken right now), but that's far from enough to get the current status of the Geolocation API.

Need a solution in Gecko for this.

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Note: it has been suggested that shell.js can do something to redirect the "geolocation-device-events" from the nsIObserverService. That might be the solution.

Comment 1

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

(In reply to Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (MoCo-TW) from comment #0)

> Note: it has been suggested that shell.js can do something to redirect the
> "geolocation-device-events" from the nsIObserverService. That might be the
> solution.

That works. We can relay that with our beloved mozChromeEvent.

Comment 2

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

Attachment: Patch

Works with the gaia pull request https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/2795

http://html5demos.com/geo/ is a good test page.

Comment 3

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/41f75bfbc8e1

Comment 4

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

small followup to fix a strict warning:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/5ff3558da89d

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/41f75bfbc8e1

Comment 6

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5ff3558da89d