Orientation–New Device API for Firefox 3.6
Next time you tilt your laptop, the web page on your screen might just move accordingly. Well, maybe not, but Mozilla developers will definitely let web developers access laptop orientation information in the upcoming Firefox 3.6 release.
According to a blog post by Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard, one new feature that we’re including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it’s available.
Here’s a few more details about the new feature coming to Firefox:
Originally built as something that we would include for our upcoming mobile browser release, we’ve made it available on desktop systems as well. Many modern Macbooks and Thinkpads contain devices and drivers that expose this information. We’ve added support for Linux, Macs and some Thinkpads where drivers and devices are available.
You can view more information from here. A beta release of Firefox 3.6 may come out later today, if a Mozilla development schedule we saw last week still holds true.
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