HTML5 Geolocation Browser Support

HTML5 geolocation allows your web application determine where you are located. It is an important concept since your browser can easily localize your search for place to eat, get gas for your car or figure out where your friends are. However, there are people who are big supporters of this feature on HTML5 and there are those who see HTML5 geolocation as privacy hazard. In any case, HTML5 geolocation is next step in location aware applications.

Many browser development companies developed support for HTML5 geolocation in their browsers. In addition, due to privacy issues raised by the community they created mechanisms of disabling HTML5 geolocation as default browser configuration. However, there is more support for HTML5 geolocation in mobile devices when standard PCs.

Let’s take a look and see who provides HTML5 geolocation support and what version of the browser supports it.

IE supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 9.0
Firefox supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 3.5
Chrome supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 5.0
Safari supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 5.0
Opera supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 10.63
iPhone supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 3.2
Android supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 2.1
BlackBerry supports HTML5 geolocation starting with version 6.0