Comments on: iPhone 3.0: Safari Geo-Location Not Just for Google’s Latitude

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:29:56 +0000

With OS 3.0 Safari geolocation, you can even mimic the native iPhone Maps app: http://plebeosaur.us/you-are-here-with-safari-on-iphone/

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By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:46:29 +0000

@develeper, on your computer, just drag and drop the image into the URL bar and it will take you to it’s excact URL that the picture was taken from. This works in firefox for windows.

By: Kenneth Auchenberg

Kenneth Auchenberg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:28:06 +0000

http://zyb.com, the social phonebook does already work with the W3C geolocation, and therefore their service works with the new Safari version!

http://pimpmy.zyb.com/post/2008/11/26/ZYB-and-W3C-Geolocation.aspx

By: Jessi (jessi_9783)

Jessi (jessi_9783) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:43:02 +0000

The paranoia in me has me nervous about this. I’m with Muero and icebike on this topic. I do not see myself tapping “Allow.”

By: fassy

fassy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:47:55 +0000

This computerworld article linked by MacRumors suggests domain-by-domain restrictions, though of course the screen shots could be faked.

But even if they are by domain and have a same-origin restriction like XHR (e.g. so that when you are visiting TIPB, theiphoneblog.com could ask for your location, but not smartphoneexperts.com, google-analytics.com, or theblackhelicoptersarecomingtogetme.com), I cannot yet imagine any feature out there compelling enough to make me click "OK" on this.

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:17:17 +0000

Personally, I'm not all that enthused about my browser knowing my exact location.

If I want to search for something near me, adding a city name to the search string is easy enough.

I can't imagine willingly allowing anyone I know to stalk me, and I'm certain I don't want unknown web sites to do so either.

So the question for those enthusiastic about this feature, I have One Question: What would you see this offering you in exchange for surrendering your privacy?

By: Developer

Developer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:13:53 +0000

This would have been a great article for me about a week ago. I have an app that uses WebKit that was just rejected because it did not work with these APIs properly in 3.0. The problem is I can’t find any documentation, or even an example website where I can go to reproduce the problem and catch the error. If anybody knows the full URL for the website in the screenshot, please post it.

By: Funy

Funy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:44:27 +0000

@truth I feel your pain but in some ways apple are good. Google takes ages winmo rarely gets updates and even rarer that carriers release them quickly if at all (unless you install 3rd party cooked Roms)

Agree with muero about the location request prompt

By: Truth

Truth — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:04:37 +0000

Just release the damn thing already Apple. I swear you guys have the longest Beta’s ever. Well not longer than Google but still damn.