Geolocation in Safari 5

Question

Hi all,

I have a application which reports my location using HTML5 geolocation. The application works correct on Firefox and Chrome, but on Safari 5, it says that Safari does not support Geolocation.

From what I read, Safari 5 does support Geolocation. What am I missing?

Thanks for your time.

Sunil

Answer 1

hmmm, I'm a little stumped. Safari 5 does support geolocation through HTML 5. You might want to try to use an HTML 5 feature detection service like Modernizr. This will tell you what browsers support html5 and css3 standards. I'm using Safari 5 and Modernizr shows that the geolocation API is supported.

Answer 2

Although nominally geolocation support in Safari 5 is available on both Mac and Windows, I'm hearing of more issues on the Windows side.

For example, see this similar StackOverflow question. In that case, though, navigator.geolocation was available, it just never received a successful callback. When you say that "it says that Safari does not support Geolocation", who is saying that to you? Are you getting an error callback, is navigator.geolocation null, or have you just read this elsewhere (and if so, where?)?