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[Newest Webmonkey Articles] Until the geolocation specification becomes a true standard, we need something that will check Gears, Geode, and any others that come around. In this example, I'll share the function I wrote to look for Geode and, if it's not there, look for Gears.
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[webmonkey] Gears Geolocation Can Find Your Laptop - Webmonkey: Google Gears Google released a geolocation API for laptops to Gears, its toolkit for creating cross-browser functionality. This follows its first foray into geolocation, available only for Windows Mobile.
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[ProgrammableWeb] Google Gears Geolocation API Gets WiFi: [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGoogle has just announced a nice addition to the Google Gears Geolocation API: the ability to use WiFi on laptops to locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world. We originally covered the GeoLocation API back in August, when Google first announced the release of the API for use in mobile devices to get a more precise estimate of a users location.
[Comments for Mozilla Labs] Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode: “The ultimate plan for Firefox is that service providers and geolocation methods will be pluggable and user selectable [...]” and “The still-in-developement Firefox 3.1 version will allow the user to choose a geolocation service provider, which can either be a peripheral device like a GPS, or a web-based service provider like weve used in Geode.”
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[Ajaxian » Front Page] Ajaxian » navigator.geolocation now available in Firefox via Geode: When I posted about using navigator.geolocation now the only support that I had was via Gears and the ClientLocation API. I wrote the shim to try to get you the W3C API no matter what, and today we have the first implementation in a .
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[Lifehacker Comments] Geolocation: Google Gears Getting Location Awareness: On the heels of Mozilla's location-aware Geode extension for Firefox Google announces that Google Gears will get a geolocation functionality.
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[Pete Freitag's Homepage] Geolocation API for Adobe AIR?: It also has information available on the mobile device and provider, the mast your connecting via, your altitude etc So to answer part of your question about AIR, well if your the style of AIR developer that uses HTML/Javascript then these methods are already available to you as you can pull in various libraries and google APIs into AIR.
[Web Info & Tutorials] Web Info & Tutorials » navigator.geolocation now available in ...: To squawk soured Geode, digit another websites hit started innovating with location. Both order accounts before you crapper essay them out.
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[heise online - Grand unified feed] Mozilla previews Geolocation for Firefox - heise online UK: Mozilla Labs have introduced Geode, a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox 3 that enables Wifi geolocation, as a prelude to the W3C Geolocation API being incorporated in future versions of Firefox.
[The Click2Mapâ Blog] Gears Geolocation API for Wifi: An Opportunity For Geo-Marketers: Whether your users are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or (soon) Opera users, you can now automatically deliver an experience that is tailored to their current location.
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[://udz.cc/] Google Gears Getting Location Awareness [Geolocation] | ://udz.cc/: On the heels of Mozilla's location-aware Geode extension for Firefox, Google announces that Google Gears will get a geolocation functionality for laptop Wi-Fi users, so you can get local news and...
[Ajax Blog] navigator.geolocation now available in Firefox via Geode: When I posted about using navigator.geolocation now the only support that I had was via Gears and the ClientLocation API. I wrote the shim to try to get you the W3C API no matter what, and today we have the first implementation in a .
[Blogrunner > Technology] Introducing Geode - Blogrunner: When I posted about using navigator.geolocation now the only support that I had was via Gears and the ClientLocation API. I wrote the shim to try to get you the W3C API no matter what, and today we have the first implementation in a browser, via Geode.
[GPS Obsessed] Google Gears Geolocation API Goes WiFi, Works With Desktop Browsers: For privacy reasons, the Gears Location API server doesn’t record your location, but if you allow third-party sites to access that data (and you can opt-on or out everytime) than they likely will. So be careful is privacy is a concern for you.
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