Geolocation tag

[Howard Rosenblum]

Does your book discuss the geolocation tag? For example the demo in http://html5demos.com/geo does not work properly eventhough it claim to be able to find my location.

Cheers
Howard

[Bear Bibeault]

Geolocation is an API, not a tag.

Not supported in all browsers, but your link worked in all browsers I tried (essentially every modern browser but IE).

[Howard Rosenblum]

Did it give you the right location? mine showed downtown and I am in a suburb. Does the book discuss this tag?
Howard

[Howard Rosenblum]

OOPs, does the book discuss the API?

[James Williams]

Howard,

Yes, it does briefly discuss the API. Geolocation can give false positives at times based on how your traffic is being routed. Behind a VPN, it can show the corporate headquarters of a company.

[Bear Bibeault]

Howard Rosenblum wrote:Did it give you the right location?

For me, all browsers located me exactly. I tested in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

Remember, it's just a guess based upon network topology (see Geolocation API). So my location must be easier to guess than yours.

[Howard Rosenblum]

Thank you, both of you
Howard

[kalai sundar]

Check out http://findmylocation.info/faq.jsp for more details on geo location services.