FireFox 3.6 To Work With Accelerometers

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Your thoughts?

The comments on that page are all that need to be said.

Honestly, unless it's actually useful (and it doesn't look like it is) this is a pretty dumb addition.

Is that really needed? Who's it useful for?

Im thinking its a kind of "proof of concept" type of addition. Is it needed? No, not really. Who will get to use it? Mostly mac users.

The concept alone though, is pretty cool. If they or the web designers can think of practical uses for it, I could see it as being a good add-on. As is? its just a lil extra beef in the taco, and you cant quite finish the taco.

omg so that's why it's taking them so long to release 3.6... they are working on this piece of crap that no1 needs

Haha, that's awesome! I could see myself playing with this for a while. xD

Firefox's secret weapon against Chrome!

Show me a practical use for it then I’ll be interested.

Is that really needed? Who's it useful for?

Totally.

Firefox's secret weapon against Chrome!

Show me a practical use for it then I’ll be interested.

Tablet PC with accelerometer, need to see a page in a different angel? turn the tablet :f6:

Tablet PC with accelerometer, need to see a page in a different angel? turn the tablet :f6:

Yeah that's the one thing I have always wished I could do while browsing the internet. Physically tilt my PC/Tablet etc so I could view a page at a different angle.

I would imagine the only useful thing it's for would be if you're in a car, or a bus, or a plane or something. The rocking of the environment would make viewing the page annoying, unless you for some godforsaken reason have an accelerometer in your computer.

Yeah that's the one thing I have always wished I could do while browsing the internet. Physically tilt my PC/Tablet etc so I could view a page at a different angle.

What if you look at an image and its too wide for the screen? Simple tilt to the sidee and you see more (butts)

What if you look at an image and its too wide for the screen? Simple tilt to the sidee and you see more (butts)

Have you ever seen a computer that's taller than it is wide? I haven't.

Ive always thought tablets were book page styled, so that they were taller than wider.

I wasn't including tablets, but even so there's always ways to make pictures smaller.

I would imagine the only useful thing it's for would be if you're in a car, or a bus, or a plane or something. The rocking of the environment would make viewing the page annoying, unless you for some godforsaken reason have an accelerometer in your computer.

Then you'd have the rocking of the environment plus the rocking of the stuff on the screen. By the looks of it, it doesn't render fast enough to look smooth in real time.
If anything it would be nicer just to have a rotate option that lets you manually tilt the page if for whatever reason you need to.