Category Archives: mozilla

Geolocation support in add-ons

By dougt | Published: November 12, 2009
Today, I checked-in a set of changes that will allow mozilla addons the ability to acquire the location information. It is pretty simple to do: geolocation = Cc["@mozilla.org/geolocation;1"] .getService(Ci.nsIDOMGeoGeolocation); geolocation.watchPosition(successCallback); In this trivial example, the object |geolocation| is fully compatible with the W3C’s geolocation object that exists under the navigator object in web content. |successCallback| [...]
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how i made the 192 pushlog ugly

By dougt | Published: September 30, 2009
in other words, how i screwed up a hg push. I wanted to push changes from mozilla-central to mozilla-1.9.2. The standard way is to: ============================================================= how to apply a m-c committed patch to a release branch ============================================================= hg qimport http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-rev/ hg qpush hg qref -e # add approval information hg qfin . hg push What [...]
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CoreLocation in 10.6

By dougt | Published: September 21, 2009
I took a really quick look at the built-in location services on Mac 10.6.  I wanted to determine what sort of accuracy the feature had out-of-the-box, and what the API looked like. The code is pretty simple.  Just something like: CLLocationManager* locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init]; locationManager.delegate                = self; locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest; [locationManager startUpdatingLocation]; The [...]
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Using CoreWLAN on MacOS 10.5

By dougt | Published: September 16, 2009
When Apple’s OS X version 10.6 shipped, they broke compatibility will all 3rd party geolocation applications.  This wasn’t entirely unexpected as we all were using a private framework which wasn’t documented.  So, Firefox 3.5 and Gears, and probably Skyhook, are busted right now on OS X 10.6. Apple has provided, with limited documentation, a new [...]
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