RE: Supporting Portrait-First and Landscape-First devices in HTML5 Device Orientation

Sorry for the delay!  

We've had an opportunity to discuss your suggestions and comments with our internal teams and agree with your approach.  The main original concerns we had were:
* Creating a dependency between the screen and device orientation specs.  Based on your comments this doesn't seem to be a concern.
* Breaking existing implementation.  Again, based on your comments this doesn't seem to be a concern.

The Z axis concerns I stated in my previous message was due to my misunderstanding of how the Z axis is mapped. Tab and Jonas, you are correct, the Z coordinate values are irrespective of how the device is being held (portrait or landscape).

We should provide guidance to developers that the X and Y device orientation coordinate axis will be aligned to the current screen orientation. Also, developers should request an orientation lock to avoid the possibility of their device orientation resetting.

As a next steps, who is responsible for updating the current device orientation specification?

Thanks.
Dhruv

On Friday, August 16, 2013 10:08 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com]

>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

Received on Friday, 30 August 2013 21:24:57 UTC