Speaking to @saschanaz, they suggested that watchPosition() and getCurrentPosition() should invoke the error callbacks if the document is not fully active.

This makes sense in particular for promise-wrapped code, which would otherwise get stuck.

// current spec, this doesn't proceed in the odd case where the geo 
// object is from a non-fully active doc. 
await new Promise((res, rej) => geo.getCurrentPosition(res, rej));