There’s a new HTML in town that provides a much better interface for geolocation than the older API. Daniel Schwarz is here to explain how it all works together.
  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I didn’t finish reading. Is there a clean way for a user to input their location instead of it being read drizzly from the machine?

    • codeinabox@programming.devOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Good question, though wouldn’t that be a feature of the browser? It wouldn’t be a good user experience asking people to manually enter coordinates.

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Yeah, that would be an excellent feature of the browser. That way the site doesn’t even know if it’s your current location or just one you picked.

        I was thinking a clickable map. But also allow pasting coordinates.

        • elmicha@feddit.org
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          10 days ago

          In Android’s development settings you can select an app to spoof the location, but I don’t know what apps for this purpose exist.