Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 15th Oct 2009 04:04 UTC
Firefox will now include code to detect how a laptop or mobile device is situated in relation to the ground for devices with the appropriate hardware. "One new feature that weâre including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if itâs available. As you can see from the [video viewable by following the link] you can use it to figure out if the machine is moving and what direction itâs facing. Originally built as something that we would include for our upcoming mobile browser release, weâve made it available on desktop systems as well. Many modern Macbooks and Thinkpads contain devices and drivers that expose this information. Weâve added support for Linux, Macs and some Thinkpads where drivers and devices are available."
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2005-07-20
You aren't making any sense.
His pretty graphs are for the next version of Firefox, which *is* faster than the previous version.
So why are you still claiming that it would be better to work on making FF faster instead of putting in orientation support? It is shown by the pretty graphs that the FF developers did *both*