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Geolocation Address

By dougt | Published: July 20, 2009
Last week, I pushed a change that will enable tomorrow’s trunk Firefox builds (Minefield) to access user-readable position information. For example, instead only being able to work with: 37.3882005, -122.0834553 You can see the physical address as: 650 Castro St, Mountain View, California, 94041, US This should help aide the many people that already know [...]
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Geolocation in Firefox 3.5 and Fennec

By dougt | Published: April 30, 2009
I’m excited to introduce a new feature in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 that I’ve been working on called geolocation. Geolocation is an opt-in tool that lets users share their location information with web sites through Firefox and will enable a new range of services on the web. Geolocation can make web sites smarter and you [...]
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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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geolocation brown bag

By dougt | Published: March 3, 2009
tomorrow at 12:30 pm PT, I am giving a brown bag on Geolocation. It will be broadcasting over air mozilla (http://air.mozilla.com/). If you are interested in geolocation stuff in the browser, please tune in!
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