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Orientation in Firefox and beyond

By dougt | Published: August 23, 2009
One of the coolest apps I saw when the iPhone came out was the wooden balance game Labyrinth.  You basically tilt your phone to move a ball around the screen, avoiding holes, and trying to get the ball to a goal.  It made use of a feature of many modern devices — accelerometers. Obviously clear [...]
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Device Orientation

By dougt | Published: March 30, 2009
I have a proposal for exposing device orientation in the browser. It is a pretty simple api that allows you to monitor motion changes from Javascript. For example: navigator.orientation.watchOrientation(draw); function draw(o) { // o.x, o.y, o.z } o in function draw is a vector in three dimensional space in meters / (seconds^2) units. This allows [...]
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A Short History of Mozilla on Windows Mobile

By dougt | Published: February 10, 2009
I thought it might be nice to reflect on my involvement in porting the Mozilla to Windows Mobile. In 2004 we had a project called Minimo — it was meant as a lighter weight build-time configuration of Mozilla for GTK. To showcase the build options, we had an application called TestGtkEmbed that developers could use [...]
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Milestone 1: Fennec for Windows Mobile

By dougt | Published: February 10, 2009
Today we are releasing a pre-alpha version of Fennec for Windows Mobile. This release is pre-alpha. Did I say pre-alpha? Yes, this is pre-alpha and has a way to go in both stability and performance before we release this as “1.0″. Please try out and give us feedback! Please file bugs at bugzilla.mozilla.org. Download link: [...]
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