Mobile/DeviceAPIs

LocationAware.org

http://locationaware.org/

Standardization of location APIs - sounds like Doug knows more about this.

Google Gears

http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-March/014155.html

Proposal from Google - part of Google Gears

WebKit on GNOME

http://www.atoker.com/blog/2008/02/26/developing-hybrid-web-gtk-applications/

From Alp's FOSDEM talk

External module to expose location metadata to Web apps 
Implements the locationaware.org spec 
Spec not final 
Uses Gypsy GPS library (alternative location sources possible) 
– http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/ 
var geolocator = navigator.getGeolocator(); 
geolocator.request(function(location) { 
   alert(location.latitude+', '+location.longitude); 
});