HTML5: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Supporting Geolocation

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With the incredible rise in popularity of smartphones, the ability to determine the location of a device has become almost essential, particularly for running interactive maps and navigation software, and even for finding local Wi-Fi hotspots, or services such as restaurants or cash dispensing machines, and so on.

Geolocation is also being used more and more to try to sell you services by offering promotions in stores that ...