Re: Re: geolocation.setCurrentPosition({...}): a way to debug geolocation and give more power to us

Yes, I want a way to setup a mock position, both for testing purposes and  
to give more control to users.

regarding debugging: A good debugging tool for geolocation would include  
the possibility to update the location at will, not just to set the  
location once.
One can imagine a map being opened in a portion of the screen with a  
draggable marker on it, and the position handler being called every time  
the marker is moved on the map.
Would that be trivial to develop as a Firefox addon? How much work would be  
required to port it to chrome?
setCurrentLocation would make it easy to develop such thing as a cross  
browser bookmarklet, using google maps API, in less than 20locs

Regarding user control: Users only have the possibility to refuse to share  
their location info. They should be given a low level way to provide a  
custom position to a website.

lr

Received on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:22:48 UTC