[potatolicious]

Didn't take long to incorporate into the spec (even then, it's practically light speed by W3C standards, and a tortoise crawl by native standards)... but support in the wild is still pretty pathetic.

As long as IE lives, web standards will move at a snail's pace. I'd say we're >5 years (probably more!) out from being able to, in general, expect something like geolocation to be supported in your average user.

If you want to move faster than the competition and give more hardware/features to your users, you're still going native.

[ignifero]

it works decently on webkit browsers (and palm os i think, and nokia). The thing is there should be at least drafts for camera or voice support in webkit, simply because there is a need for it (Or else there wouldn't be projects like phonegap or titanium). With the proliferation of tablets and more and more mobile devices, going native will soon be a sisyphean task.