- From: Andy Pemberton <pembertona@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:55:04 -0500
- To: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Tatham Oddie <tatham@oddie.com.au>, Nick Doty <npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu>, "public-geolocation@w3.org" <public-geolocation@w3.org>
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. >> >> >> >> 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) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Andy Pemberton >> www.andypemberton.com >> >> > > > > -- > Andy Pemberton > www.andypemberton.com > -- Andy Pemberton www.andypemberton.com
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