[Bug 25088] 'orientationchange' should fire on Window so that there can be a <body> event handler for it

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25088

--- Comment #8 from Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net> ---
(In reply to Ian 'Hixie' Hickson from comment #6)
> I use <body onfoo=""> to hook Window event listeners all the time, FWIW.
> 
> Anyway, sounds like this spec should subsume the legacy non-standard API
> (ideally in a backwards-compatible fashion that augments the legacy, but
> failing that, by replacing the legacy API with a new non-conflicting one),
> so that we end up with just one API. Either way, it doesn't seem to be a
> problem to reuse the event handler here, since as Jonas says, surely the
> events would fire at the same time.

I don't think they will. As inconvenient as it may be to consider, I believe
there is a conflict with that, as further explained at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014AprJun/0075.html

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