One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

At the W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs, one of the topics was the Geolocation API Specification. Experts from Google (news, site), Opera Software (news ...

The Mozilla Hacks blog has posted a nice screencast overview of the HTML5 Geolocation API. The video is designed to help anyone competing in Mozilla’s September developer derby (which involves ...

You’ve probably visited websites where you’ve been asked to share your location; if you agree, the site determines where you are and then typically gives you extra functionality such as directions or ...

When I first wrote my abstract for my upcoming RMOUG Training Days 2011 presentation “A First Look at HTML5,” I wrote that I’d demonstrate HTML5 in versions of the three most commonly used web ...

Apple has been talking a lot about HTML5 and open technologies, so much that they even created a page for HTML5 iPad-ready websites and wrote a popular “blog post” about the problems of Flash as a ...