23949 2013-12-02 11:48:11 +0000 Setting orientation to secondary view angles 2013-12-17 00:12:56 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Browser Test/Tools WG WebDriver unspecified PC Linux NEW P2 normal --- 24121 1 ato public-browser-tools-testing dburns fisherii jgriffin mdas mike simon.m.stewart public-browser-tools-testing oldest_to_newest 96955 0 ato 2013-12-02 11:48:11 +0000 WebDriver currently supports setting the screen orientation to either portrait or landscape mode on devices that support this configuration. Many devices support further rotation by 90° so that the top of the device aligns with the bottom border of the viewport. In Android this is refered to as secondary orientations. My suggestion is to use *-primary and *-secondary as optional additions to specify the type of orientation. This would recognize: PORTRAIT LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT-PRIMARY LANDSCAPE-PRIMARY PORTRAIT-SECONDARY LANDSCAPE-SECONDARY The PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE orientations would default to PORTRAIT-PRIMARY and LANDSCAPE-PRIMARY. 96970 1 fisherii 2013-12-02 19:16:48 +0000 This was discussed at the F2F in Boston, and it was decided to make essentially this change, with reference to the screen orientation spec: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/screen-orientation/raw-file/tip/Overview.html 97035 2 ato 2013-12-03 13:23:20 +0000 Having the ability to unlock the device's orientation could be nice. WebDriver's current setScreenOrientation(or) call would presumably lock the device in the given orientation, without providing a way to reset/unlock its orientation state. Keeping a WebDriver API for this is still necessary because of the device barrier. But is there any reason we can't mimick the screen orientation spec's API in this case?