Oct
13
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Firefox 3.6 to use device orientation
A nice little trick appeared on the Mozilla hacks blog. Firefox 3.6 will be able to use your device orientation (if the information is available) and apply it to a web page. For now, I can’t really see any use for it, but hey, it is cool anyway.
Using the API is very simple. All you have to do is add a simple event listener:
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window.addEventListener("MozOrientation", function(e) {
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/* 3 values: e.x, e.y, e.z */
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}, true);
Author: Cedric Dugas
Cedric Dugas is an experienced front-end developer and founder of Position: Absolute, based in Montreal, Canada. When he is not doing CSS and jquery (does it ever happen?), he likes to read on web usability and play trumpet. Why don't you follow him on twitter.
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