Author Archives: dougt

Geolocation – Setting your position manually

By dougt | Published: June 26, 2010
I thought that this was written down somwhere, but I couldn’t easily find it…. so If you know how to muck with about:config, there is an easy way to set your location manually.  First figure out your longitude and latitude.  There area bunch of tools on the web that gets you this.  Once you have [...]
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Desktop Notifications

By dougt | Published: June 21, 2010
This is a feature that may come to a browser some day.  I am interesting in your thoughts: Desktop Notifications Desktop notifications allow a web page to notify the user using system level services, such as Growl, in a clean, safe, and easy to use manner. The code is very simple: navigator.notification.notify("Another Desktop Notification", "Check [...]
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Opera 10.6 Beta – Geolocation

By dougt | Published: June 14, 2010
Oh, cool!  Opera has geolocation! Opera employees do lots of heavy lifting on standards.  During my involvement at the geolocation working group, I saw first hand the great to work that the Opera folks do (Hi Lars-Erik + Max!).  And it is really great to see that this work be put into a product and [...]
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Got Android? We need you…

By dougt | Published: May 18, 2010
Mozilla has started to produce nightly builds of Fennec for Android.  You can get them here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mobile-trunk/fennec.apk No auto-updating yet, so check back often.  Send your feedback to the forum.
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