HTML5 APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANUAL

32 - Coding Additional HTML5 APIs

WHATWG is a consortium that was formed by Apple, the Mozilla

Foundation, and Opera Software to define and document HTML5.

This organization is different from W3C. The WHATWG HTML5

specification includes the following additional APIs in its HTML5

specification:

• Geolocation


• Web Workers


• WebSockets


• File

Geolocation

The HTML Geolocation API is used to get the geographical position

of a user.

Since this can compromise privacy, the position is not available

unless the user approves it.

The getCurrentPosition() method is used to return the user's