> Perhaps you could do something similar with the HTTP mechanism, but I
don't know how, exactly.
>
> Another issue with the HTTP headers approach is that it doesn't seem
like a natural fit for offline-enabled web apps that want to use the
location info offline.
Right. I am not advocating the HTTP
> and do you send it to third party servers? should doubleclick be able
> to automatically target their ads based on precise location?
If the container page/site is able to access location via any of these
mechanisms, there is little to nothing that the user-agent can do to prent that
site from
Given that location may change with time, Position should (must?) also include
the Time at which the particular value was produced. Optionally, it would also
be good to have the Position describe 'how' the location was determined (GPS,
cell-tower triangulation, etc.)
shyam
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