Getting your location through HTML and feeding it to the desktop

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 10:25 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition()
>>
>> http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html
>>
>> I guess it would be the other way around, GeoClue might feed the
>> browser this data.
>
> Quite. I guess you could try and finish my aborted attempts at adding
> Geoclue support to Firefox:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485472
>
> As they mention, it might be more flexible to use the geoclue D-Bus API,
> but I gave up due to the compilation time on my machine. Testing changes
> is like pulling teeth.

I see, thanks for the URL.

  Luis