navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition always fail in chrome and firefox

Question

I got strange behavior when I tried to test my \"navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition\" web page. Here is my testing result and code:

my code:

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Answer 1

I simulated this problem and found that the success callback functions were only called when the html page was hosted on a web server and not when opened from a filesystem.

To test I opened the file directly from my C: drive and it the callbacks didn't work and then hosted the file on Internet Information Services (IIS) and the callbacks did work.