Re: Enabling a Web app to override auto rotation?
The general use case is any UI that's been designed exclusively for portrait or landscape mode because displaying it in the other mode either doesn't make any sense (e.g. most platform games), requires some artifice that the designer wanted to avoid (e.g. to function in landscape mode, e-readers rely on the book metaphor), or isn't cost effective (i.e. it requires designing two radically different UIs instead of one). --tobie On 2/8/12 9:16 AM, Marcos Caceres w...@marcosc.com wrote: On Wednesday, 8 February 2012 at 07:39, Charles Pritchard wrote: In case it's needed; use case: User is drawing a sketch on their mobile phone and their rotation is intentional as if they are working with a physical piece of paper. or a car game where the driving is controlled by how much the device is rotated (you want the orientation locked, probably to landscape)Š There are other games, like Rolando [1], that make use of both portrait, landscape, and a kind of fixed modeŠ where the orientation is fixed no matter what way you rotate the screen (think of rotating a video cameraŠ the world in the view finder stays fixed) [1] http://rolando.ngmoco.com/
Re: Enabling a Web app to override auto rotation?
There's no current spec for this, but it's on our plate: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/CharterChanges#Additions_Agreed --tobie On 2/8/12 3:06 AM, Michael[tm] Smith m...@w3.org wrote: About portrait-landscape auto rotation on current mobile/tablet browsers/platforms: If a user has auto rotation set on their mobile or tablet, I know it's possible for a particular native application to override that setting and stay in whatever screen orientation it wants. My question is if it is currently possible for a Web application to do the same thing; that is, to prevent the browser on the device from auto-rotating into a different mode. --Mike -- Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/+
Re: CfC Re: Charter addition proposal: screen orientation lock
We support adding orientation lock to the charter. --tobie
Re: CfC: Charter addition for Fullscreen API
We support this as well. --tobie On 1/31/12 5:51 PM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen kenneth.christian...@gmail.com wrote: I support having that as well. Very much needed and requested, and implemented by, I believe, Gecko and WebKit On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ms2ger ms2...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/31/2012 05:04 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: Fullscreen API Support. -- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Senior Engineer Nokia Mobile Phones, Browser / WebKit team Phone +45 4093 0598 / E-mail kenneth at webkit. http://gmail.comorg http://codeposts.blogspot.com ﹆﹆﹆
