Google Gears location API

[Andrew Turner]

On Jan 3, 2008 4:54 PM, Jussi Kukkonen <jhkukkon at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> Andrew Turner wrote:
> > Kind of like Loki's Firefox extension?
> >
>
> I think there's a difference: Loki is toolbar that uses location data
> for e.g. easy proximity searches. AFAIK Gears is an additional browser
> API that websites can use, in this case to locate the user. I could be
> wrong though, as I'm not that familiar with either (not to mention that
> I feel like I'm not capable of thinking straight today, I should be
> sleeping already...).

Loki also has JS api that can detect the Loki Firefox extension (which
does the Wifi h/w comm) and then allows the site to simply ask "where
is this user".

So for GeoClue - this would be the same thing - a Firefox extension
that talks to the GeoClue system, and then provides JS hooks.
>
> My contact with Gears is minimal, so I'm not sure if it's possible for a
> Gears implementation to say "I only implement the location API". I'm not
> even sure Google is designing the API with other implementations (than
> theirs) in mind...

Unfortunately, I haven't played with Gears yet, so my heads not
wrapping around how this works. As I understand it so far, Gears is an
API to store content and functionality offline. What is the benefit of
adding location to it? Or is it that Gears provides a large framework
of functionality, so in this case adding location isn't necessarily
specific to the "Offline" purposes of Gears?

>
> Gears is open source, so we should definitely talk to the developers.
> I'm sure they're mostly looking for cross-platform solutions. In this
> case there probably aren't any, so Geoclue might be interesting to them.
>
>  - Jussi
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