Tag Archives: geolocation

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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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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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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Location Privacy

By dougt | Published: October 26, 2009
A month ago, I was at the MetaPlaces conferences on a panel on Privacy. Dev, the moderator, asked a really interesting question: “what are you most scared about”. It is a very interesting question. Sitting next to me was the head lawyer of the CDT, someone who has giving me tons of grief about the [...]
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