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Kenneth proposed to remove/postpone the orientation descriptor: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0074.html The locking functionality is already implemented as a JS API in Screen Orientation[1] [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/#lock-the-orientation