An update on VUWER geolocation

[Tim Holman]

To all:

It appears that the VUWER geolocation problem will not be as difficult
to deal with as I initially thought. Although the Google Gears API
server is gone, Google is still running a server for HTML5 geolocation
API requests from web browsers. As it turns out, it is possible for
VUWER to format a curl request to look like an HTML5 query coming from
the Safari browser, which Google then provides latitude and longitude
information for. I'll have to rewrite the VUWER subroutine for
submitting and parsing the geolocation query and response, but that
will be a relatively straightforward fix compared to what I was
thinking I'd have to do a few days ago.

Consequently, users won't have to enter an API key once I update
VUWER. Geolocation will once again work transparently for all VUWER
installations, regardless of OS version. Schedule permitting, I
should have VUWER 1.7 released before the end of December.

Thanks,
Tim