Geolocation in FireFox 3.5

[Jiri Dvorak (GMail)]

The geo-location capability now built into FireFox 3.5 (available today) is – as one of the URLs below indicates – scarily accurate.  To test it (obviously after upgrading to 3.5), just go to http://3liz.org/geolocation/ - don’t forget to click on the privacy button, allowing the browser to share the current location.  The fact that it is based on W3 Geolocation API (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html) is very encouraging from the standards’ perspective.

 

A few URLs to check in your spare time ;-) …

• http://www.paulspoerry.com/2009/06/21/firefox-35-geolocation-scary-accurate/
• http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Google_and_Mozilla_Team_Up_to_Tell_Firefox_Where_You_Are
• http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/geolocation/
• http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/

 

- Jiri

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[Philippe Veltsos]

Thx Jiri.
Had a look at the 3liz.org in the past...
Let's hope now that the other browsers will catch up ;)
Cheers
/P

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Philippe Veltsos
Proud Gmail User :)

[Knut Staring]

That is cool indeed, missed WHO HQ by only a few hundred meters...and put me in the Czech mission!

Knut

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Jiri Dvorak (GMail) <jdv...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Cheers,
Knut Staring