It doesn't fire at all while the tab is inactive? I think browsers limit
timeouts to once per second in inactive tabs, but shouldn't stop
altogether. Anyway, as an alternative, you might consider using a web
worker.
Anthony
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 12:45:36 AM UTC-4, Emmanuel Dsouza wrote:
>
> <div id="target> </div>
> <p id="location"></p>
> <script>
> var c=1;
> var x = document.getElementById("location");
> window.setInterval(function() {
> if (navigator.geolocation) {
> navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition);
> } else {
> x.innerHTML = "Geolocation is not supported by this browser.";
> }
> }, 5000);
>
> function showPosition(position) {
> ajax('{{=URL("default","getaddress")}}' + '?latitude=' +
> position.coords.latitude + '&longitude=' + position.coords.longitude
> ,[],'target');
> c=c+1;
> x.innerHTML =c+" " + "Latitude: " + position.coords.latitude +
> "<br>Longitude: " + position.coords.longitude+ "<br>";
>
> }
>
>
> so as you can see I am printing in target and location. The one with id
> location also prints autoincremented c and the one with ajax call prints
> auto incremented session.count in target However I see that ajax one will
> work only when that particular tab is open. I want this to work even if i
> am working on another tab.
>
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