On Jan 3, 2008 4:54 PM, Jussi Kukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Turner wrote: > > Kind of like Loki's Firefox extension? > > > > I think there's a difference: Loki is toolbar that uses location data > for e.g. easy proximity searches. AFAIK Gears is an additional browser > API that websites can use, in this case to locate the user. I could be > wrong though, as I'm not that familiar with either (not to mention that > I feel like I'm not capable of thinking straight today, I should be > sleeping already...).
Loki also has JS api that can detect the Loki Firefox extension (which does the Wifi h/w comm) and then allows the site to simply ask "where is this user". So for GeoClue - this would be the same thing - a Firefox extension that talks to the GeoClue system, and then provides JS hooks. > > My contact with Gears is minimal, so I'm not sure if it's possible for a > Gears implementation to say "I only implement the location API". I'm not > even sure Google is designing the API with other implementations (than > theirs) in mind... Unfortunately, I haven't played with Gears yet, so my heads not wrapping around how this works. As I understand it so far, Gears is an API to store content and functionality offline. What is the benefit of adding location to it? Or is it that Gears provides a large framework of functionality, so in this case adding location isn't necessarily specific to the "Offline" purposes of Gears? > > Gears is open source, so we should definitely talk to the developers. > I'm sure they're mostly looking for cross-platform solutions. In this > case there probably aren't any, so Geoclue might be interesting to them. > > - Jussi > > > > _______________________________________________ > GeoClue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue > > -- Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42.2774N x 83.7611W http://highearthorbit.com Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
