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
