- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:43:08 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
- Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
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. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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