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Geolocation

Category

Device

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 5)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Provides access to device's physical location. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=769231

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21475

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation

Samples: http://simpl.info/geolocation/

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