[maemo-developers] web based local application GUIs

[From: monteslu at cox.net]

local search will not talk to the GPS unit connected to a 770,800,or 810. 

You can go to local.google.com and put in a location, then do something like search for the nearest pizza point. Works great.

Also some windows mobile and j2me phones/PDAs can download a google maps app that talks to the gps device.

But what I'm talking about is a standard that any website can use automatically by embedding something like <script src="http://localhost:2947/gpsinfo"> into their page and getting back a javascript object with the latitude & longitude info.

Luis

---- Darius Jack <dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> GPS-enabled search tool has been incorporated by Google under name local search  in last few years.
> Ok. Voice search makes it a minor novelty.
> Major problem is if What You Want is What You Get (service mark by Darius) really works.
> Internet is not more global village as paid indexing is what generates more and more money.
> 
>  
> To Allan.
> 
> Do you have any items from MediaMoo, Microworlds, GNA at your MIT Museum ?
> 
> Darius
> 
> 
> monteslu at cox.net wrote: Meanwhile, Microsoft teamed with Sprint 3 months ago to provide web applications that are location aware:
> http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=18020
> 
> The same sort of thing is attainable on an N810 using open standards when the connection is live, but the point still stands that the local service should be available offline.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Jesse Guardiani  wrote: 
> > that's typically an indicator that it needs to be fixed.
> > 
> > On 11/27/07, Allan Doyle  wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 27, 2007, at 16:31 ,  wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > ---- Jesse Guardiani  wrote:
> > > >> On 11/27/07, Tomi Ollila  wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On Tue 27 Nov 2007 16:27, "Jesse Guardiani" 
> > > >>> writes:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> On 11/27/07, Tomi Ollila  wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>    On Mon 26 Nov 2007 22:16, Igor Stoppa 
> > > >>> writes:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> What's wrong with something that runs on-demand?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>    A separate gui client which starts the server and browser on
> > > >>> demand?...but
> > > >>>>    LISCDNWiOM!! ;)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> lol. what? :)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> localhost inet sockets do not work in offline mode.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Which, btw, is pretty weird (IMHO). I have not seen this behaviour
> > > >>> in any
> > > >>> other unix system; results of "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1" has
> > > >>> preserved over
> > > >>> changes in any other interfaces (static and dynamic).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Why can not the loopback interface be up all the time ??
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Yeah, well, I guess that rules out web interfaces for userland
> > > >> applications,
> > > >> eh? shame...
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Jesse Guardiani
> > > >> Software Developer / Sys Admin
> > > >> jesse at guardiani.us
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sounds more like a bug that needs fixing rather than something to
> > > > rule out.
> > > >
> > > > Luis
> > > >
> > >
> > > This has been an issue for a long time:
> > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339
> > > http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2007-May/010076.html
> > >
> > > I guess this thread is doomed to recur every 6 months or so...
> > >
> > >  Allan
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Allan Doyle
> > > Director of Technology
> > > MIT Museum
> > > +1.617.452.2111
> > >
> > >
> > >
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