Bug 293089 – [Permissions API] Report the true permission state of Geolocation only when that API has been used since the page load

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit API

[Permissions API] Report the true permission state of Geolocation only when that API has been used since the page load

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/151426960>

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/45470

[EWS]

Committed 295237@main (386b21db7bdc): <https://commits.webkit.org/295237@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #45470 and removing active labels.

*** Bug 258726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 275950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 275479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Thanks for the fix! 

I tried reproducing the behavior for https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275479. Using https://permission.site/permission-status I noticed, that the permission state correctly is reported as GRANTED when I query with

navigator.permissions.query({ name: 'geolocation' })

but the `change` event for the permission status, outlined at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PermissionStatus/change_event, does not fire when going from PROMPT to GRANTED. Is that intended?

Hello! Currently, the change event is not fully supported, and we are aware of this.

Thanks for confirming! I reported a similar discrepancy between the query and event permission API on MacOS at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275268, potentially close it as duplicate.

Sounds good, thank you for filing the bug!