Orientation hinting

[marcoscaceres]

Should we allow orientation hinting in the manifest. Many games prefer to be run in either portrait or landscape, while other apps support "auto".

[mounirlamouri]

FWIW, I was thinking of adding that in the Screen Orientation specification instead of in the manifest format.

[marcoscaceres]

That would be nice too. Can you provide more details about how that would work? The idea behind using the manifest is that when the application is launched (as a hosted app), the orientation is applied to all top-level documents so the developer doesn't need to worry about it.

[mounirlamouri]

That's correct. This is pretty straightforward for installed applications but we should think on how to handle that for web applications and I think that part of the complexity is about when the manifest is loaded and that might be solved in the manifest specification. It's mostly a UX issue... Should we switch at load time or should we ask the user?

[marcoscaceres]

We are working this out in the use cases document. w3c-webmob/installable-webapps#11