Finally, something more gimmicky than the Blink Tag (Firefox 3.6 Orientation events)

By Brendan Nee on Oct 16, 2009

Update: Orientation events are now baked into the stable release of Firefox 3.6.

Firefox 3.6 beta was released today. It added support for “Orientation” events in web content. This javascript event can use a devices built in accelerometers to detect the orientation and update accordingly.

Since our company name is based on a non-standard HTML tag that makes text Blink I thought it would be fitting to apply the orientation event to our entire site. To view, you need a laptop with an accelerometer (a newer macbook pro or Thinkpad) and to install and run Firefox 3.6.

Check it out some demos:

In case you don’t have that, I made a video of the fun effects you are missing out on:

It turns out that if you actually have orientation events enabled, this embedded youtube video will disappear as it doesn’t play nice with embedded youtube videos. However, if you are seeing this effect live, then you don’t need to see the video.

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4 Responses to “Finally, something more gimmicky than the Blink Tag (Firefox 3.6 Orientation events)”

  1. Jay, on October 16th, 2009 at 5:42 pm Said:

    So Im on the road, and its a bumpy road. Really bumpy. That makes your site nearly unreadable :-) Good thing I dont get sea-sick easily.

  2. Brendan Nee, on October 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm Said:

    Good point, maybe I should make an off button. I updated the code so only the main page and this post get the motion treatment.

  3. Levi Freeman, on December 20th, 2010 at 3:27 pm Said:

    i created a little firefox orientation demo earlier this year, i called it inter kinect: http://www.levifreeman.com/screen/format/index.ht…

  4. blinktaginc, on January 21st, 2011 at 7:44 pm Said:

    Very cool!

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