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HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development

By : Alvin Crespo
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HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development

By: Alvin Crespo

Overview of this book

<p>Create compelling web applications specifically tailored for distribution on iOS Safari. Work through real world examples with references, and in-depth discussions on the approach; including its benefits and drawbacks.<br /><br />"HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development" strives to teach all levels of developers, beginners and professionals, the process of creating web applications for iOS Safari. Utilizing current industry standards for frontend development, learn to take advantage of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to create compelling software.<br /><br />Start with reviewing current industry standards for frontend development, and end with creating a native application using the same codebase.</p> <p>Your journey will begin with an overview of current industry standards for frontend technology, quickly moving to solve real world issues; from creating a resizable or responsive gallery, to creating a single page application that utilizes the popular Backbone.js framework.</p> <p>"HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development" aims to make you an expert in developing web applications for the iOS Safari platform.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Location-aware Applications

Geolocation is a widely requested feature in today's applications, giving accurate location-specific information to the user. In this chapter, we'll review the Geolocation API in the HTML5 specification. With this knowledge, we'll go ahead and build a wrapper that allows us to easily tap into this feature. Once we have a thorough understanding of how we can retrieve the user's location, we put our newly found knowledge to use with a simple application that uses the Google Maps API. At the end of this chapter you should have a thorough understanding of the Geolocation specification, have a simple example of its implementation, and as a bonus you should have gained some experience in using the Google Maps API. So let's start out by exploring the specification.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Geolocation specification

  • Retrieving the user's current location

  • Watching the user's location

  • Handling geolocation errors

  • Google Maps API

  • Tying Google Maps with geolocation...