Bug 40373

Summary:	Support only client-based Geolocation
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Steve Block <steveblock>
Component:	WebCore Misc.	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	Normal	CC:	abarth, ap, ddkilzer, gyuyoung.kim, joth, laszlo.gombos, luiz, sam, steveblock
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Bug Depends on:	40374, 42068, 42629, 43925, 45752, 48518, 50074, 64970, 66759, 78853
Bug Blocks:	41341, 43956, 52368

Description Steve Block 2010-06-09 11:27:44 PDT

The original Geolocation implementation used a platform-specific GeolocationService provided in WebCore and owned by the Geolocation object. A  client-based Geolocation implementation was later added in Bug 32499.

The maintenance burden of two implementations is becoming increasingly high, particularly in the light of possible refactorings to solve b/f cache problems, discussed in Bug 40162

The client-based implementation seems to be the correct approach as it avoids the layering violations of the initial approach, so we should switch all ports to use the client-based implementation.

Comment 1 Steve Block 2012-05-21 10:17:26 PDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78853 ***