Geo support in Chrome dev chan?

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Remy Sharp

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Feb 25, 2010, 12:18:59 PM2/25/10
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Someone just pinged me on twitter saying I could enable geo support in Chrome dev channel using:

--enable-geolocation

Is this so? If so, is there a list of these flags somewhere, I'm clearly missing a trick here!

Cheers,

Remy Sharp

Mark Pilgrim

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Feb 25, 2010, 12:32:50 PM2/25/10
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http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc

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Jeremy Orlow

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Feb 25, 2010, 12:28:17 PM2/25/10
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+ the geolocation developers

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Remy Sharp <re...@leftlogic.com> wrote:
Someone just pinged me on twitter saying I could enable geo support in Chrome dev channel using:

 --enable-geolocation

Is this so?

Joth or Marcus can say for sure, but I think it's a yes with many caveats and known bugs.  :-)
 
If so, is there a list of these flags somewhere, I'm clearly missing a trick here!

Stuff that's behind flags is littered with mines that only people actively developing tend to know about.  Believe us, we're about as excited to ship features as most developer channel users are to use them...so if it's behind a flag, there's probably some major outstanding reason.  And we do everything we can to pull them out from behind the flags when they're ready for beta testing.

In the case of Geolocation, I think that point can be measured in weeks.  :-)

J

Remy Sharp

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Feb 25, 2010, 12:52:10 PM2/25/10
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Thanks all for the info.

Looking forward to having a play :)

On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:37, Jonathan Dixon wrote:

> yes to all of that.
>
> The flag has existed (in trunk, and dev channel I'd imagine) for a few weeks now. It makes the API visible to javascript, but will never call you back with a valid location!
>
> I'm just polishing up patch http://codereview.chromium.org/658005/show to wire it up to work (on mac & windows) but still plenty of rough-edges so it won't be out from behind the flag for a few more weeks.
> We plan to make a mention on http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ when the first dev channel release is out with it working in some sort of fashion :-) Hopefully not many days away....
>
> Cheers
> Joth

Pedro Junior

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Feb 25, 2010, 12:43:04 PM2/25/10
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See this issue for more info: crbug.com/11246


Pedro Junior

2010/2/25 Mark Pilgrim <pil...@google.com>

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Daniel Shaw

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Feb 25, 2010, 1:10:19 PM2/25/10
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Did anyone get this to work?

Ran Mac dev channel and Chromium with the flag but no geolocation yet.

Jeremy Orlow

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Feb 25, 2010, 2:03:37 PM2/25/10
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I'll reiterate: there's a reason it's behind a flag.  :-)

Daniel Shaw

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Feb 25, 2010, 3:17:21 PM2/25/10
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I know Jeremy, but since I've been working on a Chrome extension with geolocation and I primarily use a Mac (thus no Gears), I've been itching to get at this. :)

Daniel Shaw

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Feb 26, 2010, 11:06:19 AM2/26/10
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By the way, this now works in 40118.

TEST=run browser with --enable-geolocaiton & Open http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/m
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