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<p class=MsoNormal>Hey guys. I have been watching the list for a bit and
thought it was time for me to jump in here and kick off a discussion on
geolocation-aware browsing. I tried to search through the archives to see if
the discussion had come up before and didn’t find anything, so please
forgive me if it has.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am the Dir of Product Development at Skyhook Wireless
where we have a Wi-Fi Positioning System – think GPS, but software-only
and uses Wireless APs instead of satellites. We have been working on developing
a plugin for Firefox that gives a website access to the user’s location
via javascript. User’s can control access to this information at the
domain level in much the same way they control cookies and popups.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We have been successful in exposing it through the Javascript
DOM and wanted to start talking with standards bodies about coming up with a
standard implementation to make location-aware browsing common functionality at
the browser level. I was hoping to kick off a discussion around possible
implementations and get the community’s thoughts on the topic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Location could be exposed through a standard Javascript
object/interface<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>var location = window.getLocation();<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> – would it make sense to also expose it in the
request headers? This way the server receives it on the first request as
opposed to through the client after the initial page request<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>User-Geolocation: 43.338018,
-71.817930<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>What are people’s thoughts on location in the browser?
Is the “window” object the right object to attach to? Im interested
to hear everyone’s thoughts…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best, Ryan<o:p></o:p></p>
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