hi,
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Marcos Caceres <w...@marcosc.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 15:16, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got some requests from different organizations to add the ability to
>> lock to the 'current' orientation in the Screen Orientation API.
>>
>> > From Javascript, that would allow writing
>> window.screen.lockOrientation('current');
>> instead of
>> window.screen.lockOrientation(window.screen.orientation);
>> Basically, a syntax sugar.
current is nice because it works for the manifest as well.
> the one with JavaScript seems more clear to me (as it's more evident that
> it's dynamically derived). "current" is kinda weird because setting the
> orientation is an async operation, so by the time you work out what "current"
> is, it might not longer be the "current" one... so it's kind or a race
> condition.
Why? If it rotating at the moment you call it, it could just fail, if
it is not, it could lock immediately. It is no different from using
the window.screen.orientation.
Kenneth
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