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Geolocation
The geographical location of a connected device
Geolocation is the longitudinal and latitudinal location of a connected device. Using geolocation APIs or services, developers can programmatically obtain the relative position of a device that the user has granted permission for.
30 May 2025
Tutorial
Create mobile web applications with html5
From geolocation, to local storage, to working offline, to the latest UI features, learn how to build mobile web apps with html5.
20 May 2020
Series
Create mobile web applications with html5
Learn how to use html5 to create mobile web apps
12 May 2020
Tutorial
Speed up your mobile web applications with html5 and Web Workers
Learn how to work with html 5 technology Web Workers to bring multi-threading capabilities to your web applications.
17 December 2018
Article
The future of responsive design
The future of responsive design is a user’s context in space and time, their devices context in space and time, and the user’s preferences on said devices in space and time. It’s all of these things. Today’s web browsers we access and develop for give us the power to leverage these inputs in our designs. We can now access the location, light level or light preference, orientation, and battery-level of a device, and make design choices around these elements.
30 May 2015
Article
Build Web applications with html 5
Explore powerful html 5 features such as multi-threading, geolocation, embedded databases, and embedded video.
24 May 2011
Article
html5 fundamentals
This article is the first in a four-part series designed to spotlight changes in html5.