- From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:29:06 -0700
- To: public-geolocation@w3.org
- CC: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
hello. i guess i am missing some context here. where did that discussion start? i can't remember seeing it on the public-geolocation list, but i probably just missed it. Mark Baker wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> If anyone >> wants to volunteer to write a spec to define a markup language, I think >> that would be great. A good place to put it would be: >> http://dev.w3.org/geo/ml/ >> Alternatively, we could reuse the geo Microformat as the markup language. > Good idea. It's a start. there also is/was https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-daviel-html-geo-tag/ which is dead now, but not for a long time. it has been around for a while, but never made to a standardized format. the last version was -09, i think. repeating my appeal for a well-defined position model (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Jun/0093.html), i think it would be a really good idea to have a position model that is consistent across embodiments in various technologies (such as a DOM API or an HTML version or a URI or HTTP headers). i know that this somehow contradicts the major goal of the geolocation WG to get something out of the door quickly. but i also think for that "something" (the DOM API) to be well-designed, it needs to have a well-designed position model anyway, so why not just do it once and in a way that is reusable across specifications? cheers, dret.
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