Re: Techniques, a Note! and preference to pick up next

On 17/09/2018 14:28, Abma, J.D. (Jake) wrote:
> Alastair / all,
> 
> Just went through the techniques as proposed but the exact wish for the 
> suggested ones and the conditions are not always clear enough. It would 
> be great to provide a small description, and if needed some conditions 
> to get started.
> 
> As an example take the first on my list below: “*Using CSS to set the 
> orientation to allow both landscape and portrait.”*
> 
> Is that a technique? Blocking on orientation is, but just using CSS is 
> by default fine for landscape/portrait… ?! What is the idea here?

Smells like we'd want a failure technique here, as you don't necessarily 
need to actively do anything as a developer to have something NOT be 
blocked from being viewable/operable in portrait or landscape.

> Also 
> how do you “Set the orientation”, it’s the way you hold your device 
> isn’t it, not set by CSS.

I think support is still minimal, but 
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt-1/#orientation-desc defines a way 
to explicitly request that a user agent stay in a particular orientation.

P
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