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Bug 25329 - Do not allow locking to angles
Summary: Do not allow locking to angles
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - Screen Orientation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mounir Lamouri
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2014-04-11 17:49 UTC by Mounir Lamouri
Modified: 2014-06-24 10:52 UTC (History)
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Description Mounir Lamouri 2014-04-11 17:49:17 UTC 
Mozilla and Microsoft would prefer if locking could only be done on orientation types. There is no strong use cases for that and it can always be added later so it should be fine to change.

There is still the question of whether we should be able to lock to '0' (ie. 'native').
Comment 1 Jonas Sicking (Not reading bugmail) 2014-04-11 20:26:09 UTC 
Locking to "0" or "native" sounds ok to me. But I think we should try to find a name for it which makes it clear that if you care about portrait vs. landscape then using those should be easier.

Maybe something like "hardware-native", "hardware" or "native". Longer is in some sense better here since that will encourage people to use "portrait" or "landscape" as appropriate.
Comment 2 Mounir Lamouri 2014-06-23 11:28:34 UTC 
I picked 'natural' as a name because 'native' is a pretty overloaded term on the Web.

The associated pull request:
https://github.com/w3c/screen-orientation/pull/18

Please, voice your concerns if any.
Comment 3 Mounir Lamouri 2014-06-24 10:52:33 UTC 
Fixed by https://github.com/w3c/screen-orientation/pull/18

I picked 'natural', as 'native' is a pretty overloaded term on the Web.