Re: IE9 Geolocation Support

By the way, I wrote an update to my previous post on this subject:
http://www.dzone.com/links/update_ie9_geolocation_in_february_release_candid.html

I cited / thanked Adrian and Tatham specifically.

Very cool stuff, guys!

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Andy Pemberton <pembertona@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> au mob: +61 414 275 989, skype: tathamoddie
>>
>> If you’re printing this email, you’re doing it wrong. This is a computer,
>> not a typewriter.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tatham Oddie
>>
>> Tiny keyboard = tiny message
>>
>> On 11/02/2011, at 14:56, "Nick Doty" <npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Andy Pemberton
>> www.andypemberton.com
>>
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> --
> Andy Pemberton
> www.andypemberton.com
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