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lying platform-specific implementation through a simple JavaScript API that is aligned
to the W3C Geolocation API specification. Under an MIT license,
geo-location-javascript supports a range of platforms, including iOS, Android, Black‐
Berry OS, browsers with Google Gears support (Android, Windows Mobile), Nokia Web
Run-Time (Nokia N97), webOS Application Platform (Palm Pre), Torch Mobile Iris
Browser, and Mozilla Geode.
To setup and use the API, the code you need is:
<html>
<head>
<title>
Javascript geo sample
</title>
<script
src=
"http://code.google.com/apis/gears/gears_init.js"
type=
"text/javascript"
charset=
"utf-8"
></script>
<script
src=
"js/geo.js"
type=
"text/javascript"
charset=
"utf-8"
></script>
</head>
<body>
<b>
Javascript geo sample
</b>
<script>
if
(
geo_position_js
.
init
()){
geo_position_js
.
getCurrentPosition
(
success_callback
,
error_callback
,
{
enableHighAccuracy
:
true
});
}
else
{
alert
(
"Functionality not available"
);
}
function
success_callback
(
p
)
{
alert
(
'lat='
+
p
.
coords
.
latitude
.
toFixed
(
2
)
+
';
lon='
+
p
.
coords
.
longitude
.
toFixed
(
2
));
}
function
error_callback
(
p
)
{
alert
(
'error='
+
p
.
message
);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Webshims lib
Supporting all jQuery's A-graded browsers and the latest Opera, the Webshims (
http://
afarkas.github.com/webshim/demos
) framework is based on jQuery and Modernizr and
falls under an MIT license. It tries to handle many different polyfills and shims, including
Gelocation.
