Re: Supporting Portrait-First and Landscape-First devices in HTML5 Device Orientation from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-08-16 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:08:04 -0700
To: Lars Knudsen <larsgk@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Dhruv Chadha <Dhruv.Chadha@microsoft.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCM1DUrYdP9h6+kizimHSx-Ub-mW-JBVoUYR4JKdFWXng@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Lars Knudsen <larsgk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know, I've mentioned this before - but why don't we just define one
> (hardware) direction as "0 degrees" (e.g. "portrait up"), align all the
> orientation specs and keep things simple for everyone?
>
> ref
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013AprJun/0063.html

Because that's nonsensical for landscape devices, or apps who are fine
with being rotated to landscape.  It's only simpler for spec authors -
it requires extra work for web authors.

~TJ

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