Re: Geolocation API

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:21:58 +0200, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>  
wrote:
>>    3.2 An alternative is to expose GeoLocation as a property of the  
>> navigator object.
>
> That's true, although I personally feel that the navigator object is
> meant to hold a collection of properties that are specific to the Web
> browser itself (such as version number, installed plugins, UA string,
> etc). Geolocation is somewhat orthogonal to all this. What do you
> think?

Then again, navigator also tells you something about the state of the  
user/user agent through navigator.onLine. You could argue the location of  
the user is somehow an extension to this.


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