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10/14/2009

Firefox 3.6 to Have Integrated Accelerometer Support

That's right, FireFox 3.6 will be able to detect the screen orientation of accelerometer-equipped laptops, allowing users to manipulate web pages in some weird and creative ways. Continue reading for a video demonstration.

This new feature was announced by Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard. "One new feature that we're including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it's available."
[via Mashable]

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Posted at 10/16 07:38am by sydlawrence
I have been playing around with the accelerometer in firefox 3.6b, check out my youtube video: http://bit.ly/wLGb9 or try out the webpage itself http://playground.marmaladeontoast.co.uk/ff3.6
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