I tested this both in the emulator and with real devices.
I created this little geolocation experiment site http://www.bctx.info/wx.
It works great on my Android 1.6 (Magic, I/O Phone): it prompts the
user to share, returns latitude and longitude, and is snappy. Android 1.6 uses Gears for
this.
I tried it on an up-to-date Droid and a 2.0 emulator image, and
it detects the navigator.geolocation element (excellent!) and waits
for the user to share.
However, no popup appears on the device and it cannot proceed. Any thoughts?
The phone in question was silently defaulting to the Dolphin browser, which doesn’t support geolocation.
I still can’t explain the emulator issue but for now. . . .