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But I agree with you, it's a ux dealbreaker for most situations. Solution: control the hardware. :)

The opt-in button is messy but results are very precise and reliable. Some use cases warrant it, some do not. Maxmind claims 79% accuracy on a city level: is the google api worse? …

Your best bet is html5 geolocation + modernizr.js + a shim. Browsers that support html5 geolocation will return highly accurate results while those that don't support it will fall …

Here is Crockford's 4 part series, concatenated: http://s3.amazonaws.com/2008/09/javascript.mp4 (178 MB).

Does your link require a password?

Good idea and I think it would work for Spaces too. Probably possible to build yourself with Automator. Related feature I want to see: focus-follows-mouse.

I would probably just point them to some beginner Wikipedia articles e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_sites .

Very MacGyver. From Radio Shack parts you can build a piezo sensor circuit and stick that on the keypad.