GISinc
November 13, 2012
Aside from the HTML5 canvas (which we all know to be the greatest thing since sliced bread), one of the cool new kids on the modern-browser block is the Geolocation API; or rather, the ability for your browser to retrieve geographic positioning information using JavaScript. While technically Geolocation is not actually part of the HTML5 spec, it’s mentioned so often in conjunction with HTML5 that it’s hard to separate the two.