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Interoperability, Browser & Cross Platform Testing

Interoperability, Browser & Cross Platform Testing

Rachel Appel - Use the W3C Geolocation API to create location aware web sites Location aware services and applications are becoming more important than ever before, as smartphones, tablets, and other fully featured mobile devices become ubiquitous. The W3C Geolocation API gives developers an easy way to integrate client side location aware services within their web pages. Hello, location aware world! With the advent of geolocation services and mapping APIs, web sites and applications are popping up daily providing the following types location aware software: Games and social applications, (e.g., Foursquare, Twitter, Trip It, Facebook, etc...) Notice there's a good mix of both business and consumer applications that benefit from using geolocation. How location aware web sites work Geolocation apps work by detecting the user's location via positional data that it receives from a geolocation source. There are three basic steps to the process: The client browses to a web page that attempts to access the geolocation source. $(function () { var watchID; if (nav ! else break;

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