Comments on: Detecting display’s orientation change on mobile devices with accelerometer: a platform indipendent approach (n95, i900, iPhone…) with javascript

By: Davide Zanotti

Davide Zanotti — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:45:30 +0000

Hi Mike,
I know that polling technique is not the most elegant solution, but I think is the only way to achieve the result with javascript. However this doesn’t work in ie mobile, anyway I didn’t investigate on the reason and maybe this can be solved…

anyway I’m focusing my attention and my free time on Actionscript/Flex, so I will come back to the mobile world as an Actionscript developer ;)

By: Mike Walker

Mike Walker — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:31:00 +0000

I enjoyed reviewing this code; It seems to work properly on my HTC Touch Pro w/ Opera 9.5.

I have been working on the same problem of detecting the screen orientation for the last few days. I really wish there was some way to bind an event to the changing of screen orientation, but I have not yet found a way. Maybe your polling technique is the only option, but i hate to keep something like that running in my applications. I’m sure you’ve thought the same :)

I have done a little testing on Pocket IE, but it seems to offer nothing but the very basic js support. I wouldn’t have expected any less.

Thanks for posting your work!

By: Davide Zanotti

Davide Zanotti — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:50:55 +0000

Thank you Matt, I hope that Adobe will release soon the promised Flash Player 10 for mobile devices and AIR… then the possibility for web developers of realize great things with their “web skills” will grow up considerably :-)

By: Matt Calen

Matt Calen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:36:19 +0000

Nice post keep the good working