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August 22nd, 2008

Gears’ new GeoLocation API is very slick

Posted by Ryan Stewart @ 2:34 pm

Categories: Google, Ajax

Tags: Mobile, API, AJAX, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Consumer Electronics

Gears’ new GeoLocation API is very slickDion Almaer blogged this morning about the new GeoLocation API in Gears. As a Geo-nut, I’m pretty impressed with how well it’s implemented. The API is clean, and as Dion notes, with the community working on the W3C Geolocation spec, we could see a lot more geolocation on the web soon.

The mobile version appears only to work on Windows Mobile devices but the API uses a combination of GPS, cell towers, and WiFi/IP information to get a fix on where you are. It works anywhere that you’ve got Ajax as Dion’s example shows.

The release comes as part of Gears 0.4 which in addition to the Geolocation API, also provides onprogress events for HTTP downloads and uploads and some localized dialogues. the onprogressevent will be a big deal for anyone doing large uploads in the browser.

Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst, recently joined Adobe's Platform Team as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist. See his full disclosure.
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Hopefully, it is only a matter of time. They need to get buy in from SUN
and deal with any licensing issues. They also need to do special sandboxing. for this. But, until we have Java, the applications will be limited. For instance, there is no way you could import a Word ... (Read the rest)
Posted by: DonnieBoy Posted on: 08/23/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
Seems like Gears is going to be a lot more than just an offline tool!!! DonnieBoy   | 08/22/08
RE: Gears' new GeoLocation API is very slick ryanstewart  ZDNet | 08/22/08
When will they add more languages to Gears other than Java Script. DonnieBoy   | 08/22/08
RE: Gears' new GeoLocation API is very slick dalmaer   | 08/22/08
RE: Gears' new GeoLocation API is very slick dalmaer   | 08/22/08
Hopefully, it is only a matter of time. They need to get buy in from SUN DonnieBoy   | 08/23/08

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    Dion Almaer blogged this morning about the new GeoLocation API in Gears. As a Geo-nut, I’m pretty impressed with how well it’s implemented. The API is clean, and as Dion notes, with the community working on the W3C Geolocation spec, ...

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    Dion Almaer blogged this morning about the new GeoLocation API in Gears. As a Geo-nut, I’m pretty impressed with how well it’s implemented.

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