- From: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvors@online.no>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:27:10 +0200
On 10 Jun 2004 at 15:46, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Some of you may have noticed that type="location" was removed between the > last version that I published on my personal site, and the draft currently > hosted by whatwg.org. Would be a pity to loose it. It would be excellent if, say, tcl.fr asked me only once for my home address, set a cookie in my mobile phone's browser to remember it and later on I could just go to a page with a type="location" field and choose "show me the best route home" to see schedules and connections from the nearest bus/metro/tramway stop. :-) > I have attached the comments that led to this removal. I am not qualified > to write new text to address these concerns, but if someone can write text > that solves these problems, I would be happy to reintroduce the feature. I'm not qualified to write a text either but it may be worth considering that the site will normally have an idea of the required precision of the data. TCL's site (Lyon public transport) would benefit from a more precise location data than SNCF's (the French railways) as there are more bus stops than railway stations, and weather.com would usually only need to know what section of what country I'm in. Obviously implementing a "Select from map" widget means the UA must be configured to find map data somewhere, and there must be a way to translate the coordinates of a user click (or whatever) back to coordinates. Precision for selecting from a map depends on the scale the map is using. Perhaps a "mapscale" attribute would be useful to let the site suggest a certain precision, and UAs that implement map- selection could have zoom widgets to let the user override that. -- Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen hallvors at online.no / www.hallvord.com
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