{
  "title":"DeviceOrientation & DeviceMotion events",
  "description":"API for detecting orientation and motion events from the device running the browser.",
  "spec":"http://www.w3.org/TR/orientation-event/",
  "status":"wd",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/",
      "title":"HTML5 Rocks tutorial"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://raw.github.com/phiggins42/has.js/master/detect/features.js#native-orientation",
      "title":"has.js test"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/device-orientation-events/device-orientation-events/info",
      "title":"DeviceOrientation implementation prototype for IE10"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://aurelio.audero.it/demo/device-orientation-api-demo.html",
      "title":"Demo"
    }
  ],
  "bugs":[
    {
      "description":"`DeviceOrientationEvent.beta` has values between -90 and 90 on mobile Safari and between 180 and -180 on Firefox.\r\n`DeviceOrientationEvent.gamma` has values between -180 and 180 on mobile Safari and between 90 and -90 on Firefox.\r\nSee [Firefox reference](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DeviceOrientationEvent)\r\nand [Safari reference](https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/SafariDOMAdditions/Reference/DeviceOrientationEventClassRef/DeviceOrientationEvent/DeviceOrientationEvent.html#//apple_ref/javascript/instp/DeviceOrientationEvent/beta)"
    },
    {
      "description":"Safari on iOS doesn't implement the spec correctly, because alpha is arbitrary instead of relative to true north. Safari instead offers webkitCompassHeading`, which has the opposite sign to alpha and is also relative to magnetic north instead of true north. (see [details](https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/6))"
    }
  ],
  "categories":[
    "JS API"
  ],
  "stats":{
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      "5.5":"n",
      "6":"n",
      "7":"n",
      "8":"n",
      "9":"n",
      "10":"n",
      "11":"a #1"
    },
    "edge":{
      "12":"y",
      "13":"y",
      "14":"y"
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      "2":"n",
      "3":"n",
      "3.5":"n",
      "3.6":"p",
      "4":"p",
      "5":"p",
      "6":"a",
      "7":"a",
      "8":"a",
      "9":"a",
      "10":"a",
      "11":"a",
      "12":"a",
      "13":"a",
      "14":"a",
      "15":"a",
      "16":"a",
      "17":"a",
      "18":"a",
      "19":"a",
      "20":"a",
      "21":"a",
      "22":"a",
      "23":"a",
      "24":"a",
      "25":"a",
      "26":"a",
      "27":"a",
      "28":"a",
      "29":"a",
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      "31":"a",
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      "35":"a",
      "36":"a",
      "37":"a",
      "38":"a",
      "39":"a",
      "40":"a",
      "41":"a",
      "42":"a",
      "43":"a",
      "44":"a",
      "45":"a",
      "46":"a",
      "47":"a",
      "48":"a",
      "49":"a",
      "50":"a",
      "51":"a",
      "52":"a",
      "53":"a"
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    "chrome":{
      "4":"n",
      "5":"n",
      "6":"n",
      "7":"a",
      "8":"a",
      "9":"a",
      "10":"a",
      "11":"a",
      "12":"a",
      "13":"a",
      "14":"a",
      "15":"a",
      "16":"a",
      "17":"a",
      "18":"a",
      "19":"a",
      "20":"a",
      "21":"a",
      "22":"a",
      "23":"a",
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      "25":"a",
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      "31":"a",
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      "36":"a",
      "37":"a",
      "38":"a",
      "39":"a",
      "40":"a",
      "41":"a",
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      "46":"a",
      "47":"a",
      "48":"a",
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      "50":"a",
      "51":"a",
      "52":"a",
      "53":"a",
      "54":"a",
      "55":"a",
      "56":"a",
      "57":"a"
    },
    "safari":{
      "3.1":"n",
      "3.2":"n",
      "4":"n",
      "5":"n",
      "5.1":"n",
      "6":"n",
      "6.1":"n",
      "7":"n",
      "7.1":"n",
      "8":"n",
      "9":"n",
      "9.1":"n",
      "10":"n",
      "TP":"n"
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    "opera":{
      "9":"n",
      "9.5-9.6":"n",
      "10.0-10.1":"n",
      "10.5":"n",
      "10.6":"n",
      "11":"n",
      "11.1":"n",
      "11.5":"n",
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      "12":"n",
      "12.1":"n",
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      "16":"a",
      "17":"a",
      "18":"a",
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      "20":"a",
      "21":"a",
      "22":"a",
      "23":"a",
      "24":"a",
      "25":"a",
      "26":"a",
      "27":"a",
      "28":"a",
      "29":"a",
      "30":"a",
      "31":"a",
      "32":"a",
      "33":"a",
      "34":"a",
      "35":"a",
      "36":"a",
      "37":"a",
      "38":"a",
      "39":"a",
      "40":"a",
      "41":"a",
      "42":"a",
      "43":"a"
    },
    "ios_saf":{
      "3.2":"n",
      "4.0-4.1":"n",
      "4.2-4.3":"a",
      "5.0-5.1":"a",
      "6.0-6.1":"a",
      "7.0-7.1":"a",
      "8":"a",
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    "op_mini":{
      "all":"n"
    },
    "android":{
      "2.1":"n",
      "2.2":"n",
      "2.3":"n",
      "3":"a",
      "4":"a",
      "4.1":"a",
      "4.2-4.3":"a",
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      "7":"n",
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    "op_mob":{
      "10":"n",
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      "11.1":"n",
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      "12":"y",
      "12.1":"y",
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    },
    "and_chr":{
      "54":"a"
    },
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      "50":"a"
    },
    "ie_mob":{
      "10":"n",
      "11":"y"
    },
    "and_uc":{
      "11":"a"
    },
    "samsung":{
      "4":"a"
    }
  },
  "notes":"Partial support refers to the lack of compassneedscalibration event. Partial support also refers to the lack of devicemotion event support for Chrome 30- and Opera. Opera Mobile 14 lost the ondevicemotion event support. Firefox 3.6, 4 and 5 support the non-standard [MozOrientation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/MozOrientation) event.",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"`compassneedscalibration` supported in IE11 only for compatible devices with Windows 8.1+."
  },
  "usage_perc_y":1.97,
  "usage_perc_a":88.18,
  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"",
  "ie_id":"deviceorientation,devicemotion",
  "chrome_id":"5874690627207168,5556931766779904",
  "firefox_id":"device-orientation",
  "webkit_id":"",
  "shown":true
}