Orientation Update…

A few days ago, I blogged about orientation support in Firefox.  I am happy to report that linux patches landed over the weekend.  (We also have Window Mobile and Thinkpads running Windows patches in the review process.)

If you a linux laptop and have a few minutes, please download one of the Firefox Trunk nightly builds and try out orientation!

What to try?

http://people.mozilla.org/~dougt/ori.html

Let it run for a little bit, then shake your laptop (not responsible for any damage ).  After you have a couple dozen responses, send me the results including what distro and laptop you are using.

Demos!

While you are testing things out, check out the demo Michael Ventnor (m.ventnor at gmail.com) put together:

http://dougt.org/random/orientationdemo/index.xhtml

Justin Dolske has a few demos too:

• Seismometer
• No idea, but it’s awesome

Jesse Ruderman also cleaned up the “ball” demo that I created making the animation smoother.

Help Wanted

There are still other platforms that I would like to support.  I specifically would like to see Windows support using their Sensor API.  If you are interested in helping, file a bug, cc me, and take a look at the other implementations.