Chapter 6. Network and location APIs
This chapter covers
- Finding the user’s location and proximity to places and people of interest
- Communicating directly with content from other servers
- Having the server push information to the user rather than rely on pull
- Building websites that work when there’s no network connectivity
The previous chapter discussed HTML5 APIs that worked directly with the content in the browser, but one of the key features of the web is that it’s not about standalone computers: it’s about a connected network. HTML5 has a number of APIs related to connectivity and communication, and you’ll learn about them in this chapter.
Finding yourself with the Geolocation API
Location-aware services and applications are a ...
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