Geolocation support in add-ons

Today, I checked-in a set of changes that will allow mozilla addons the ability to acquire the location information. It is pretty simple to do:

geolocation = Cc["@mozilla.org/geolocation;1"]
.getService(Ci.nsIDOMGeoGeolocation);
geolocation.watchPosition(successCallback);


In this trivial example, the object |geolocation| is fully compatible with the W3C’s geolocation object that exists under the navigator object in web content. |successCallback| will be called when Firefox acquires your position.

The prompting of the user is left up to your application. All addons hosted on addons.mozilla.org must follow the guidelines and prompt the user.

If you have questions about what is permissible, please contact me.