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10 Realtime Web Technology Predictions for 2014

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So presumably every site I visit in 2014 will request my location?

Didn't hang around long enough to read it after that..

No. That would be the geolocation API https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocati...

You can of course use that in conjunction with realtime web technologies: For example, see: http://leggetter.github.io/100-lines-or-less-js/realtime-col...

Actually, that one doesn't use the geolocation API. It's just a realtime mapping example.

This one uses the geolocation API: https://github.com/leggetter/realtime-visitor-tracker

It's actually a really good use case, but not the only one.

I believe he is referring to the fact that your website requests one's location for no apparent reason.

Ah, I understand now. See point 2 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297658

1) Why the clickbait title? 2) What do you want my Geolocation for? 3) Why can't I middle click or ctrl+click any links in the article?

1. I guess I could've removed the "10" bit?

2. I'm running some realtime benchmarks on a number of hosted service providers. If I can get the geolocation it let's me add that to the benchmark results. Granted, a banner that provides info on that would be better than the bog-standard browser prompt.

3. Yeah, sorry about that. I'm interested to see where I'm sending traffic to so am capturing outbound clicks. It seems there's a bug on Chromium on Linux where the `event.metaKey` isn't set to `true` when it should be. See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95874

Is preventing middle-click to open in new tab a trend for 2014? If yes, I don't want to live on this internet anymore.

Seems like the middle-click issue is a bug known to the owner of the site: http://www.leggetter.co.uk/2014/02/24/10-realtime-web-techno...

Yeah, thanks. Hopefully that's fixed now.

Title should be "How Many Times Can I Say 'Realtime' in One Post"

Branding at its finest ... or worst. I think it's a little overboard, but hey ...don't knock the guy for trying to put his brand in your mind.

"Realtime being fundamentally integrated with an app or website" comes with the assumption that the visitor is always connected. This might not always be true especially for the mobile user. Users would appreciate a functional site that works well despite the intermittent connectivity than one that shows a spinning loader.

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