Tag Archives: MozOrientation

Labyrinth Game in the browser

By dougt | Published: December 21, 2009
A few months ago, I mentioned the game Labyrinth and how I wanted this to work in the browser. Syd Lawrence took up the cause and put together a cool implementation. Play it here. You must be running Firefox 3.6 RC or better. This uses the new orientation events added to Firefox 3.6. Syd also [...]
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Orientation Update…

By dougt | Published: August 30, 2009
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 [...]
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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 that [...]
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