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[Hunter 9999 <mail AT hunter-9999.de>]

Am 12.12.2012 um 18:41 schrieb nanashiRei <nanashi.rei AT gmail.com>:
> What?
> 
> http://html5demos.com/geo
> 
> Move along...?! We live in 2012, use it as you please. Of course users
> with old browsers (IE!) will not be able to use this, there should be a
> fallback for them, but in general 90% of the users on the web have
> FF12.0+ or Chrome (which is up2date anyway), the rest ~ well ~ *caugh*
> should rethink their choice of browser. No, in reality even IE 9 + 10
> support this. And Opera does, too.
> 
> www.html5test.com - try it yourself. :P

You are right, in most cases it should work.
But I think, we do not need this hight accuracy and should not bug the user 
with the submit-dialog.
Also I think, the location we get at the moment is the location of the 
endpoind of your ISP to the Internet.
This Location should be more relevant than your own.

Further my post means an method to "ping" the servers, to priorize the 
servers by real latencies.

-- 

Daniel Jäger


> Am 12.12.2012 18:09, schrieb Hunter 9999:
>> Am 12.12.2012 um 02:21 schrieb Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free>:
>>>> Geo-location generally doesn't provide you with faster or more reliable 
>>>> response times. If you want to give people faster response times.
>>> 
>>> True, and recommending servers based on ping times may be a better way of 
>>> doing it.
>>> 
>>> If it was my code I might experiment with this, but it isn't.
>> 
>> You can check this by JavaScript.
>> But for this every of this Servers have to contain an Image to load.