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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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Device Orientation

By dougt | Published: March 30, 2009
I have a proposal for exposing device orientation in the browser. It is a pretty simple api that allows you to monitor motion changes from Javascript. For example: navigator.orientation.watchOrientation(draw); function draw(o) { // o.x, o.y, o.z } o in function draw is a vector in three dimensional space in meters / (seconds^2) units. This allows [...]
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Layout Engine Internals Video

By dougt | Published: November 23, 2008
David Baron spoke last week at the Google Tech Talks.  It is a great talk if you want to understand a how browser work. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_6bGNZ7bA]
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