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That is a good way to never ever ever use a feature again. "Frightening Message: This website wants to do something scary. Do you want to allow some bad thing to happen to your computer?" That is how lay people, i.e. the people needed to mass adoption, read browser requests for Geo, storage, and other permissions.

It would be better to have sane and safe defaults in the browser, rather than pester the user. Would cookies have worked if the browser asked for permission on every website?




It could be done as in Opera, where there is a initial limit, and a request to exceed it when maxed.

http://i.imgur.com/SOoadOB.png


Heh, that may possibly be one of the final features for other browsers to copy from Opera, before they join the herd and switch to webkit :)

I'm actually not sure how much that'll change Opera, and affect their way of innovating new features to include.


It should not be blocking though!


Browsers like Chrome do it with geolocation for example. If it is required for the user to get a certain service they want, what's the "scary" part? You can say no and use the parts of the site that work with it, or yes and get the extra functionality. Like with geolocation.


Would cookies be used for tracking you everywhere if the browser asked for permission on every use? Would this be a good or bad thing?

(It's not like keeping state in the URL is hard - using cookies just looks marginally better.)


Then, if you were logged in to a site, you would only be logged in, in that particular tab.




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