DeviceOrientationEvent and DeviceMotionEvent constructors

Category: Device
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 59)
Intent stage: None

Summary

The DeviceOrientationEvent and DeviceMotionEvent constructors are defined by the DeviceOrientation Event Specification but were not were not implemented in Chrome. Firefox has already shipped these constructors as specified.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/deviceorientation/spec-source-orientation.html
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=651767

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DeviceOrientationEvent https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DeviceMotionEvent

Samples: http://w3c-test.org/orientation-event/idlharness.html

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