OK, since I was planning to have the charter up today, let's have a quick
call for consensus on this. Please reply by end of business Wednesday if
you support or object to this - silence will be taken as not explicitly
supporting it, and without support it isn't going to get into the draft
charter. If it does go there, there will still be opportunities to object
but it will be harder to squeeze in.
cheers
Chaals
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:22:30 +0100, Robin Berjon <ro...@berjon.com> wrote:
Hi all!
Sorry for bringing this to the group this late, but it's a topic that's
been discussed in other places and that I believe is both useful and
mature enough to be ready for standardisation.
Some applications are designed in such a way that they only make sense
in one device orientation. The archetypical example would be a game that
only works in landscape mode, but there are other examples. Right now
native apps can support this rather easily, but web apps have been stuck
with silly hacks such as detecting that the orientation is wrong and
asking the user to rotate. This further leads to trouble when the device
itself is used as a controller (e.g. in racing games) as this can
sometimes trigger an undesired orientation change mid-game — hardly a
user-friendly experience.
Note that this is not about system-level orientation lock (which would
be fodder for another group) but application-level orientation.
Options to address this have been discussed (amongst other places) here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.webapi/browse_thread/thread/f38bb05e66c01a77#
There is discussion as to whether this ought to be only an API or if it
should use a <meta> element (which would also give it an API since it
could be changed dynamically), with an overall leaning towards the
latter. I am rather confident that we should be able to agree on the
best approach relatively quickly.
I will let implementers speak for themselves, but my understanding is
that there is interest in this feature. It is certainly a regular
request from developers.
In previous discussions we haven't hashed out who would stand up as
editor and test facilitator, but I'm confident that we can find people.
If no one else steps up, I'll take the testing hat.
WDYT?
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