Safari / MS Edge bugs

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Safari / MS Edge bugs

ajlatour opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

I'm trying to force my webapp to be in landscape view only. Having a rotate device message on portrait is appearing on desktop versions of Microsoft Edge and Safari.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

alexandermaisey · Answer 1 · Sat May 26 2018 00:17:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I just discovered this issue today as well.

Krzysztof Przybylski · Answer 2 · Wed Jan 09 2019 21:23:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It uses Screen API orientation features which aren't supported in Safari and MS Edge
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen#Browser_compatibility
It also uses window.orientation which isn't supported as well https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/orientation#Browser_compatibility

Timo Uhlmann · Answer 3 · Wed Jan 09 2019 23:27:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@groinder It uses the Screen Orientation API and window.orientation as a fallback for browsers that don't support screen.orientation.

@ajlatour It's not possible to lock the orientation in all browsers. For that reason, the example in the README displays a message to rotate the device.