- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:46:19 +0200
- To: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>, kaz@w3.org
- Cc: Giridhar Mandyam <mandyam@quicinc.com>, Xiaoqian Cindy Wu <xiaoqian@w3.org>, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Jonas Sicking <sicking@mozilla.com>, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>
(adding Kaz to the distribution since he is taking over the Geolocation
Working Group staff contact role)
Le jeudi 07 août 2014 à 08:17 -0400, Arthur Barstow a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> Below (also at [1]), Jonas indicates there is a "procedural issue"
> vis-à-vis WebApps' Screen-Orientation spec and the Device Orientation
> (DO) spec. I believe an open question is about the status of the later.
>
> Would someone please take a look at Jonas' e-mail and let us know the
> status and plans for the DO spec?
>
> [BTW, when you reply, please feel free to replace www-archive with
> public-webapps.]
>
> -Thanks, Art
>
> [1]
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JulSep/0203.html>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Screen Orientation Feedback
> Resent-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:15:11 +0000
> Resent-From: public-webapps@w3.org
> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 14:14:10 -0700
> From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
> To: Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I think the current interaction between the screen orientation and
> device orientation specs is really unfortunate.
>
> Any time that you use the device orientation in order to render
> something on screen, you have to do non-obvious math in order to get
> coordinates which are usable. Same thing if you want to use the device
> orientation events as input for objects which are rendered on screen.
>
> I would argue that these are the by far most common use cases for
>
> I agree that the main problem here is that the deviceorientation spec
> defined that their events should be relative to the device rather than
> to the screen. However we can still fix the problem by simply adding
>
> partial interface DeviceOrientationEvent
> {
> readonly attribute double? screenAlpha;
> readonly attribute double? screenBeta;
> readonly attribute double? screenGamma;
> }
>
> No new events needs to be defined.
>
> I guess we can argue that this should be added to the
> DeviceOrientation spec, but that seems unlikely to happen in practice
> anytime soon. I think we would do developers a disservice by blaming
> procedural issues rather than trying to solve the problem.
>
> I think mozilla would be happy to implement such an addition to the
> DeviceOrientation event (I'm currently checking to make sure). Are
> there other UAs that have opinions (positive or negative) to such an
> addition?
>
> / Jonas
>
>
>
>
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