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Device Orientation

Category

Device

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 7)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Provides access to device's physical orientation

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/44654

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

Samples: http://simpl.info/deviceorientation/

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