Geolocation Articles
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The Making of the Time Out Firefox OS app
A rash start into adventure So we told our client that yes, of course, we would do their Firefox OS app. We didn’t know much about FFOS at the time. But, hey, we had just completed refactoring their native iOS and Android apps. Web applications were our core business all along. So what was to […]
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Who moved my geolocation?
One of the questions we often get when we are talking about Firefox OS is: “What about the GPS on some devices”? You may have noticed that on some devices, the GPS position is not quite accurate or can take a long time to report even when you are outside. Let me start by explaining […]
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Interview with Giovanny Granada, winner of the Geolocation Dev Derby
Giovanny Granada won the most recent Geolocation Dev Derby with GoGeoTweet, his wonderful web-based visualization of Twitter activity happening nearby. Recently, I had the chance to learn more about Giovanny: his work, his ambitions, and his thoughts on the future of web development. The interview How did you become interested in web development? I became […]
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Located: Winners of the September Dev Derby on Geolocation.
With more people going mobile and taking the Web with them, we thought Geolocation was a great topic for the September Dev Derby. Web developers explored a number of ways to bring your physical location into the Web experience and we had 16 demos submitted for the Dev Derby. Voting was tough this month, but […]
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Webinar: Geolocation with Remy Sharp
Update 2011-09-09: Oh noes! We had a double dose of technical difficulties during this webinar. The BigBlueButton server froze and required a couple of reboots to get it working. It worked fine for the remainder of the session. Thanks to those who stuck around, and apologies to everyone for the problem. On top of that, […]
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Where on earth? This month's Developer Derby is all about geolocation.
Another month, another Developer Derby. This month we want you to play with something that is not part of the HTML5 stack and we feel it doesn’t get the love it deserves from developers: the geolocation API. Firefox has supported this API for a long time and you can do some pretty cool things with […]
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HTML5 and CSS3: Exploring Mobile Possibilities – presentation at London Ajax Mobile Event
In the beginning of July, I was attending and giving a presentation at the London Ajax Mobile Event about possibilities offered by HTML5 and CSS3 when it comes to developing mobile web sites and applications. Short introduction of me Being my first post here at Mozilla Hacks, I thought I’d start by briefly introducing myself […]
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(r)evolution number 5
We’ve just launched Firefox 3.5, and we’re incredibly proud. Naturally, we have engaged in plentiful Mozilla advocacy — this site is, amongst other things, a vehicle for showcasing the latest browser’s new capabilities. We like to think about this release as an upgrade for the whole World Wide Web, because of the new developer-facing features […]
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geolocation with open street maps
This demo was created by René-Luc D’Hont. He created this demo for the 35 days project with open source software and open data from various projects. His company, 3Liz, specializes in open source GIS application development. Three days ago we had a post from Doug Turner describing how Geolocation works in Firefox 3.5. René-Luc has […]
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geolocation in Firefox 3.5
This post is from Doug Turner, one of the engineers who is behind the Geolocation support in Firefox 3.5. Location is all around us. As of this writing, I am in a coffee shop in Toronto, Canada. If I type google into the url bar, it takes me to www.google.ca, the Canadian version of Google, […]
