I think this feature was designed to consider mobile context (it doesn't mean mobile phone usage only). Even its tilting feature is not adaptable for desktop users, it may open the horizon to deal with very new style web. It means to handle parameters from accelerometers to show tilting feature; such as to change perspective of contents or to trigger certain actions according to those parameters.
I imagined interesting contents which are likely adaptable including 3D like map, which is switchable between 2D and 3D based on angle of display (like Google Earth), and Switchable view mode, which shows brief information only by default and present detail and huge information when display turns into vertically. In short, it is quite interesting and worth to considered by web publishers to differentiate own user experience. ^^; Tony 2009/10/15 Charles Boyung <charles.boy...@nexustechnologiesllc.com> > Erik, > > I was just thinking the same thing as you - I'm really glad that > they're focusing on garbage like this rather than making FireFox an > actual, usable browser for me. > > As for its use, unless they start writing more browser-specific > garbage into their rendering engine (thus moving them even FURTHER > from true w3c compliance for HTML and CSS), it really won't have > much use beyond rotating full pages, which doesn't honestly mean > much, and after playing with it for a few minutes, even the biggest > hardcore FireFox nerds are going to abandon it and turn the feature > off. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46731 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
