Hi,Slightly unrelated, but it triggerred from Stan's last reply. Is it possible for web apps to get the geo location of user?
Since you mentioned location object, I was wondering how to get the data from GPS into Web App. Any pointers of suggestions? Thanks Sajid On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Stan Wiechers <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah, you guys might be right unfortunately, you could request the location > object of the user and see if the phone has compass attributes, but that > would involve the dialog to get the permission. are the DOM storage > limitations the same on all devices? > > not being able to tell the underlying hardware platform is quite common > with laptop browsers, you can't tell the processor somebody is using or the > thinkpad version number. for phones however it is common to be able to > determine what kind of phone it is and that is good since you might give > different content based on the phones capabilities. that doesn't really > apply yet for the iphone family, they all have same browser capabilities it > seems. only if your webapp relies on compass you would need to go trough the > process of getting the location first before being able to see if the phone > is compatible sub optimal but not terrible. > > i simply want to show the users of percentmobile.com (i am co-founder) > more detailed apple stats beyond the mere OS version number. like how many > people come to a site with an actual 3GS device. > > if you still come up with something please let me know, > stan > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Sean Gilligan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I'm pretty sure Max is right. It's always easier to show how something >> can be done than to prove it can't. There may be some clever hack for >> revealing the information, but given the lack of response, I would guess >> no one on this list has one. >> >> -- Sean >> >> Max Melcher wrote: >> > hey stan, >> > >> > i think you cant determine the hardware version - first i thought the >> > information is encoded in the useragent string but thats only >> > safari/iphone os related. >> > Then i thought you could do it with the presence of dom storage or >> > location api - but i think the iphone classic can do it, too. >> > >> > cheers >> > Max >> > >> >> >> > > > -- > "Local color. Soak it up" > Virginia Vidaura > > http://www.merkwelt.com/people/stan/ > > please overlook typos > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
