CR: DeviceOrientation Event Specification

DeviceOrientation Event Specification

https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-orientation-event-20160818/

feedback due by: 2016-09-15

Abstract


This specification defines several new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a hosting device.

Status of the Document


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This document was published by the Geolocation Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-geolocation@w3.org (subscribe, archives). All feedback is welcome.

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W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation by the developer community. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation no earlier than 15 September 2016.

For this specification to exit the Candidate Recommendation stage, two independent implementations will be required to pass each test in the DeviceOrientation test suite.

Please see the Working Group's implementation report.

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