- From: Thomson, Martin <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:17:07 -0600
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Andrei Popescu" <andreip@google.com>, "Richard Barnes" <rbarnes@bbn.com>, "public-geolocation" <public-geolocation@w3.org>
I said manually, but I never said (or intended to imply) that the user of the browser is the person who does that. I would hope that the quoted statement, when taken in context would make that clear enough. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] > Sent: Friday, 14 November 2008 10:43 AM > To: Thomson, Martin > Cc: Andrei Popescu; Richard Barnes; public-geolocation > Subject: RE: Forward/backward compatibility > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Thomson, Martin wrote: > > > > How does a wired device get location information? This is easy - > > manually. > > Good lord no. They'd use a system like SkyHook, or approximate the > location based on the machine's IP. The whole point is to avoid asking > the > user stuff like this. > > Browsers aren't going to be implementing complex geographic location > configuration mechanisms, let's face it. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. > fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ > ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`- > .;.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any unauthorized use of this email is prohibited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [mf2]
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