Re: [screen-orientation] Locking to 'current' orientation

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:50 AM, John Mellor <johnme@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>>
>> The strongest argument that I can think of is that it would be nice to
>> keep the manifest spec and the API spec for orientations aligned. So
>> if we think this is common enough that apps will want to use it in the
>> manifest, then allowing it in the API too would make sense.
>
> It's quite easy to emulate having current in the manifest, by allowing all
> orientations in your manifest, then immediately locking to the current
> orientation with JS when your app starts.

Indeed, that's a very good point. And Annsi provided further data that
this use case seems very rare. So I would say let's drop it.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:05:27 UTC