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    Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-To
    Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-To
    Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-To
    Ebook118 pages22 minutes

    Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-To

    By Ben Werdmuller

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    Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. The book will take a how-to approach, focusing on recipes that demonstrate geolocation in HTML5.This book is for web developers who want to incorporate geolocation technology into their applications. Previous knowledge about geolocation software or standards is not required. However, this book assumes a general understanding of web technologies, and both Javascript and jQuery in particular.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 22, 2013
    ISBN9781782165910
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      Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-To - Ben Werdmuller

      Table of Contents

      Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-to

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-to

      Understanding the Geolocation API (Simple)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Further resources

      Setting up the application (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Getting the user's location (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Displaying the user's location using the Google Maps API (Intermediate)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Displaying the user's location using a KML feed (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      See also

      Tracking and updating the user's location (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-to

      Instant HTML5 Geolocation How-to

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      Credits

      Author

      Ben Werdmuller

      Reviewers

      Mark DuBois

      Matt West

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      Commissioning Editor

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      About the Author

      Ben Werdmuller is a web developer, product manager, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Elgg, an open source social networking platform used by organizations such as NASA, the World Bank, and Oxfam. Currently, he serves as the CTO of latakoo.com, an enterprise platform for sending, storing, and sharing videos and large files. He writes at benwerd.com.

      I'd like to thank my family, and the web community. My career, let alone this book, wouldn't have been possible without both of them. I'm on an incredible journey, and I'm forever grateful.

      About the Reviewers

      Mark DuBois has been working with HTML since 1992. He built his first commercial website in 1995. Mark created the first accredited AAS degree in Web Systems and the first accredited certificate in rich Internet application development. Mark teaches many courses in web technologies at Illinois Central College. He has developed over 20 semester-long classes on various aspects of web design, development, and application security. His focus is on industry best practices regarding such items as security, accessibility, and web standards in these courses. He also serves as Director of Education for WebProfessionals.org and is recognized by Adobe as an Adobe Education Leader. Mark has recently taught numerous classes on HTML5, CSS3, and development of mobile apps using PhoneGap. He helps run both the Illinois and national web design contests for WebProfessionals.org (under the auspices of SkillsUSA). He can be found on Twitter (@Mark_DuBois) and posts articles on various aspects of web technology at http://blog.markdubois.info and http://blog.learning-html5.info.

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