1983483 - Ship screen orientation lock API

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Comment 1

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

Can we enable this to ride the trains (land a patch) this cycle? I assume we're just flipping a pref from @NIGHTLY@ to true or the like

Comment 2

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

(In reply to Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me) from comment #1)

Can we enable this to ride the trains (land a patch) this cycle? I assume we're just flipping a pref from @NIGHTLY@ to true or the like

All WPTs are passed or filed as spec issues. Also, I have landed an orientation bug for Android 14 last week. I can turn on it now.

Comment 3

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

Attachment: Bug 1983483 - Ship screen orientation lock API. r=edgar!

We have implemented the Screen Orientation API except for the unresolved
issue, so let's ship it for Android and Windows tablet.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/1cff9a312560
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b1093e6d5729
Ship screen orientation lock API. r=edgar

Comment 5

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b1093e6d5729

Comment 6

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

:m_kato, could you consider nominating this for a release note? (Process info)

Comment 7

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Support screen.orientation.lock() and screen.orientation.unlock() to set screen's orientation
[Affects Firefox for Android]: Yes
[Suggested wording]: Added support for lock() and unlock() methods of ScreenOrientation interface on Windows tablet and Android.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ScreenOrientation

Comment 8

[Brian Birtles (:birtles)]

Note for devdocs: I believe the browser compat data needs updating too.

Comment 9

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Thanks, added to the Fx144 nightly release notes, please allow 30 minutes for the site to update.
Keeping the relnote-firefox flag as ? to keep it on the radar for inclusion in the final Fx144 release notes.

Comment 10

[Hamish Willee]

FF144 MDN docs work for this can be tracked in https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/41142

Comment 11

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Added to the Fx144 release notes