There’s a lot of excitement (sample) about browsers (notably Firefox and Chrome,but actually any implementation that include Google Gears) implementing the W3C Geolocation API. Why? In the past few days Google announced that Google Maps (desktop) can now take advantage of it. All good. My concern:all this discussion may be “fuzzing up”what the API does and does not do.
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