- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:02:19 -0800
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: > > Hi, Aaron- > > Aaron Boodman wrote (on 3/6/08 8:55 PM): >> I work on Google Gears team. If you're not familiar with what Gears >> is, you can learn more here: http://code.google.com/apis/gears. >> We've been working on an API that will allow an application to obtain >> (with permission) the user's current location. I posted this to the >> WhatWG mailing list, but it was suggested that this might be a more >> appropriate place. >> Anyway, here's our current design: >> http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/LocationAPI >> We think there's a lot of potential for interesting applications with >> a API like this. Some examples would be recommendations for nearby >> restaurants, turn by turn directions, or city walking tours. >> Are there any other vendors interested in implementing something like >> this? If so, we'd like to work together to come up with a standard. >> Otherwise, I'll just put this out there for comment for the time >> being. We'd appreciate any feedback on the design, one way or the >> other. > > This is interesting stuff, and I agree it is very useful to have. > > There is already some activity happening in this area, in the > Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group (UWA or UbiWeb). [1] It's > obviously a hot topic, and one I personally hope can be specified > and deployed quickly (since we're already about 15 years behind > Japan in this stuff ^_^ ). > > I think you hit the nail regarding vendors... that's a crucial next > step. > > I'm happy to facilitate bringing your insight in this area to W3C, > and I'm sure we can find the best way to move this forward, and get > involvement from other vendors. Feel free to drop me a line > offlist, and I can do a bit more research and point you in the right > direction. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ I am much more interested in Aaron's proposal than in DCCI (comments forthcoming). Regards, Maciej
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