Re: IE9 Geolocation Support

FYI, it looks like the IE9 Release Candidate available today officially adds
support for the Geolocation API.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/10/acting-on-feedback-ie9-release-candidate-available-for-download.aspx

I haven't had a chance to test its implementation yet, but excited to hear
that it's available. (It sounds like it's not using the underlying Win7
Location Platform.)

Nick

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Andy Pemberton <pembertona@gmail.com>wrote:

> Adrian:
>
> Thanks a ton for your response; I'm sure you're super busy.
>
> I'd be _very_ excited to see IE9 support the feature and I've heard
> rumors (some of which you've seen on the list, I'm sure) that it may
> be supported.
>
> So you know my interest, I'm currently working for a well-known
> Fortune 500 company in the US that would like to use the feature in a
> large-scale web application, but they're concerned about IE's support
> for the feature.
>
> So, +1 vote to see it implemented!
>
> Thanks again.
> -Andy
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > On 02 September 2010 08:55, Andy Pemberton wrote:
> >> I'm curious if any members of the Geolocation community are aware of
> >> Microsoft Internet Explorer's intention to support the Geolocation API
> >> with Internet Explorer 9. I pulled down the latest platform preview
> >> (4), but it is not yet supported.
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > Thanks for trying out IE9 platform preview. We haven't announced support
> > for the Geolocation API. As you're no doubt aware, in general we do not
> > comment on if and when a particular feature might be part of a future
> product
> > and I don't have any news to share on this particular topic.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Adrian.
>
>
>
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> Andy Pemberton
> www.andypemberton.com
>
>