{
  "title":"Geolocation",
  "description":"Method of informing a website of the user's geographical location",
  "spec":"https://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/",
  "status":"rec",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"http://html5demos.com/geo",
      "title":"Simple demo"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://raw.github.com/phiggins42/has.js/master/detect/features.js#native-geolocation",
      "title":"has.js test"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://www.webplatform.org/docs/apis/geolocation",
      "title":"WebPlatform Docs"
    }
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  "bugs":[
    {
      "description":"IE9 appears to [have some issues](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-IE/ieitprocurrentver/thread/aea4db4e-0720-44fe-a9b8-09917e345080) in correctly determining longitude/latitude."
    },
    {
      "description":"iOS6 has problems with returning [high accuracy data](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4313850?start=0&tstart=0)."
    },
    {
      "description":"Safari 5 & 6 seem to not provide geolocation data [when using a wired connection](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3791442/geolocation-in-safari-5)."
    },
    {
      "description":"Firefox 52 and below had a permission dialog with an additional \"not now\" option. This option postponed the permission decision until later and therefore deliberately did not call any callbacks, [see bug](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675533)"
    }
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    "JS API"
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  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Only works on secure (https) servers"
  },
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  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"",
  "ie_id":"geolocation",
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}