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Re:Mapping in HTML – A Proposal for a New Element by jcranmer on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:23PM (#15564517)
> For example, my user agent may know where I live and thus show me this place relative to that place—the sort of thing that a web component can’t possibly do.

Web components have been able to do that since before web components existed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation . It's almost as old as <canvas>.

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Re:Mapping in HTML – A Proposal for a New Element by chrismorgan on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:46PM (#15564637)
I didn’t say where I am, I said where I live. I didn’t make the distinction clear enough, but I did mean it. The user agent may know more things that are able to make the map more useful for me.
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