Re: IE9 Geolocation Support

Very exciting; I couldn't resist responding to Tatham's post.

Here are my results running on IE9:
- In VMWare with no Wireless support (note the fallback to IP-based
detection): https://gist.github.com/826285
- On a Win7 machine w/wireless support: https://gist.github.com/826290

The accuracy w/Wireless is impressive.

To all those on the list, feel free to stop by and visit me at the office. ;)

-Andy

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the report. We are aware of an issue with the service and are
> working on deploying the fix.
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> From: Tatham Oddie [mailto:tatham@oddie.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:32 PM
> To: Tatham Oddie; Nick Doty
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> Cc: Andy Pemberton; Adrian Bateman; public-geolocation@w3.org
> Subject: RE: IE9 Geolocation Support
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> Here’s what the service request looked like when I did it from the lounge in
> Sydney airport:
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> https://gist.github.com/raw/821545/a3645a7d1bd49206ae66866b65b7dc28478cecff/IE9%20geolocation%20hit
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> (returns HTTP 400)
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> And here’s what it looks like from 35,000ft over Texas right now:
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> https://gist.github.com/raw/823260/63000a73088c04f3600afb23f40a1a2483aa14c0/gistfile1.txt
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> (returned Seattle, but that’s what you’d expect with in-flight WiFi)
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> Tatham Oddie
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> au mob: +61 414 275 989, skype: tathamoddie
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> If you’re printing this email, you’re doing it wrong. This is a computer,
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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
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> 1. It's not using the Win 7 platform. It sends a WCF HTTP request to an
> endpoint on inference.location.live.com with you unique machine id, OS,
> timezones and WiFi signatures.
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> 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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> Tatham Oddie
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> Tiny keyboard = tiny message
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> On 11/02/2011, at 14:56, "Nick Doty" <npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> FYI, it looks like the IE9 Release Candidate available today officially adds
> support for the Geolocation API.
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/10/acting-on-feedback-ie9-release-candidate-available-for-download.aspx
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> 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.)
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> Nick
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> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Andy Pemberton <pembertona@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Adrian:
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> Thanks a ton for your response; I'm sure you're super busy.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> So, +1 vote to see it implemented!
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> Thanks again.
> -Andy
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> 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.
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>> Hi Andy,
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>> 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
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Andy Pemberton
www.andypemberton.com

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