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Re: Position Heading Questions?

From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:34:52 -0800
Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Taqi Jaffri <tjaffri@microsoft.com>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
Message-Id: <619C66D4-C0FB-4C57-917C-75718685DF32@gmail.com>
To: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>

strawman:

The |orientation| attribute denotes the direction of the hosting  
device is facing and is specified in degrees counting clockwise  
relative to the true north. If the implementation cannot provide  
heading information, the value of this attribute must be null.





On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:

> -1
>
> Seems like splitting hairs to make a whole WG to deal with a single,  
> scalar property.
>
>
> Doug Turner wrote:
>> On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:20 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Taqi Jaffri  
>>> <tjaffri@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If folks are passionate about this we should consider starting a  
>>>> spatial orientation working group so that some time in the future  
>>>> we can script to navigator.orientation just like  
>>>> navigator.geolocation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, that is the best way to go.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrei
>>>
>> +1
Received on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:35:33 GMT

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