On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 00:09, Alexander Harrowell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Francis Irving <[email protected]> > wrote: >> For location information, how does this compare to the W3C spec? Which >> I'm hoping will soon be implemented on phone browsers. >> >> http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html > > I honestly don't know, and I struggle to see how a browser spec intersects > with SS7-speaking application servers other than through GET requests, or > really where W3C comes in.
They're defining a standard javascript API for location data (latitude,longitude, altitude, direction and speed) for websites to use and browsers to implement. How the browser gets this info is up to the browser. Possibly phone browsers will call the RESTful API you've mentioned to get this info. A desktop web browser might just have a preferences setting for users to set. Hardware with GPS functionality can supply it via calls to it's driver. Dean _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
