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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.

17 December 2018

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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.

The future of responsive design