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Re: Remove Insecure Usage of DeviceOrientationEvent

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Remove Insecure Usage of DeviceOrientationEvent
Date 2019-06-03 18:50 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> <https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5468407470227456>
> 
> says will soon start restricting the DeviceOrientationEvent API in a
> non-secure browsing context. I don't fully understand what they mean.
> 
> - Are they referring just to "older" window.orientation or does it
> include window.screen.orientation (or to something else)?

No.
 
> - Will they work with https/tls (if that's what they mean by a secure
> browsing context)?

Yes, that is what they mean.

Previously, the Geolocation API stopped working on Web sites that can only 
be accessed with “http://”.

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Remove Insecure Usage of DeviceOrientationEvent Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2019-06-02 19:57 +1000
  Re: Remove Insecure Usage of DeviceOrientationEvent Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2019-06-03 18:50 +0200

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