I think he means it's undocumented within Cordova's docs.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "Undocumented" in this case -- it's not a > private API that would get you booted from the App Store; it's a documented > method on UIView, although it's been deprecated recently.[1] > > Agreed that supporting the screen-orientation spec is probably the way to > go in the future, on any platforms that can support it. > > [1] > > http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIViewController_Class/DeprecationAppendix/AppendixADeprecatedAPI.html#jumpTo_9 > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > iOS seems to have an undocumented "feature" to call into javascript > before > > every device orientation change (pasted below for your viewing pleasure). > > > > I can't find any such similar functionality on other platforms, should it > > be removed? Likely we will want to write a screen orientation ( > > http://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/) plugin instead (eventually). > > > > > > - > > > > > (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation > > { > > // First, ask the webview via JS if it supports the new orientation > > NSString* jsCall = [NSString stringWithFormat: > > @"window.shouldRotateToOrientation && > > window.shouldRotateToOrientation(%d);" > > , [self mapIosOrientationToJsOrientation:interfaceOrientation]]; > > NSString* res = [webView > > stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsCall]; > > > > if ([res length] > 0) { > > return [res boolValue]; > > } > > > > // if js did not handle the new orientation (no return value), use > > values from the plist (via supportedOrientations) > > return [self supportsOrientation:interfaceOrientation]; > > } > > > > -Michal > > >
