FWIW, this is the usage of window.orientation in the wild recorded by Chrome: https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/285
However, Google's internal tools allow me to see the repartition between platforms and this seen a lot by Chrome Android users. Should we add this to the Screen Orientation specification? -- Mounir On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, at 04:56, Jonas Sicking wrote: > As someone pushing for the ScreenOrientation API, I agree with this > intent nonetheless. > > It *might* be worth warning about this property being inconsistent, > and that it's better for users to use the ScreenOrientation API. But I > think it's really only worth doing if this is something that other > browsers agree to do as well. > > / Jonas > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:29 PM, William Chen <wc...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > *Summary*: window.orientation returns a value corresponding to the screen > > orientation. The orientationchange event is fired when the orientation of > > the viewport is changed. These features are non-standard but have been > > implemented by other browser vendors on mobile platforms leading to > > widespread usage on major websites. In order to improve web compatibility, > > these features are also going to be implemented by Gecko on mobile > > platforms and we are also working on standardizing the feature. Web authors > > should avoid these features because the values returned by > > window.orientation are unreliable as it means different things across > > different platforms. Instead, authors should use the ScreenOrientation API > > which offers the more functionality and better specified behavior. > > > > *Bug*: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920734 > > > > *Link to standard*: https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-window-orientation > > > > *Platform coverage*: Firefox for Android and Firefox OS. > > > > *Estimated or target release*: Firefox 44 > > > > These features are currently implemented by the stock Android browser, > > Safari on iOS, Chrome for Android and Internet Explorer on Windows Phone. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
