RE: IE9 Geolocation Support

Thanks for the report. We are aware of an issue with the service and are working on deploying the fix.

From: Tatham Oddie [mailto:tatham@oddie.com.au]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:32 PM
To: Tatham Oddie; Nick Doty
Cc: Andy Pemberton; Adrian Bateman; public-geolocation@w3.org
Subject: RE: IE9 Geolocation Support

Here's what the service request looked like when I did it from the lounge in Sydney airport:

https://gist.github.com/raw/821545/a3645a7d1bd49206ae66866b65b7dc28478cecff/IE9%20geolocation%20hit

(returns HTTP 400)

And here's what it looks like from 35,000ft over Texas right now:

https://gist.github.com/raw/823260/63000a73088c04f3600afb23f40a1a2483aa14c0/gistfile1.txt

(returned Seattle, but that's what you'd expect with in-flight WiFi)


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From: public-geolocation-request@w3.org [mailto:public-geolocation-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Tatham Oddie
Sent: Friday, 11 February 2011 6:16 PM
To: Nick Doty
Cc: Andy Pemberton; Adrian Bateman; public-geolocation@w3.org
Subject: Re: IE9 Geolocation Support

1. It's not using the Win 7 platform. It sends a WCF HTTP request to an endpoint on inference.location.live.com<http://inference.location.live.com> with you unique machine id, OS, timezones and WiFi signatures.

2. The service is currently broken in a number of timezones (or so far, anything outside the US). It's just returning a 400 to the browser.

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On 11/02/2011, at 14:56, "Nick Doty" <npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu<mailto:npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
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<mailto: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<mailto: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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