Default Orientation

  • Lovely app.

    One problem is many users have complained about not being able to rotate as the default is Portrait. See The Register article comments on PWA’s https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/one_of_apples_monopoly_defenses/ for more.

    Can this be set to Follow as default. I don’t see a security risk as no permissions required to follow.

    This would solve many complaints as your plugin is nearly default across the WordPress web.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by chumedia.
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  • Plugin Author SuperPWA

    (@superpwa)

    We do have an option in superpwa settings. Using this Orientation you can set it as per your requirements.

    Reference screenshot: https://prnt.sc/12kh6rm

    Thread Starter chumedia

    (@chumedia)

    Orientation is set to Portrait by default (as ur pic), so lots of PWA sites are fixed and annoying because of this.

    Orientation default should be Follow Device not Portrait

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    Plugin Author SuperPWA

    (@superpwa)

    IOS does not take orientation from the manifest. It prefers user handle(device orientation) to manage it, not from the manifest.

    Thread Starter chumedia

    (@chumedia)

    iOs uses Follow Device and no longer allows the manifest to dictate orientation as that was a hang-over from 1-gen Apps for mobiles.

    Whilst iOS ignores the orientation declaration, Android – by far the most popular OS in the world – does still allow orientation and by setting the selected option to Portrait, most users – myself included when I first used your plugin – won’t realise this.

    If it is set to Follow Device Orientation then it stops that.

    I care little about you or your plugin. It was nice as it was really the first on the scene that did a nice job of PWA’s, But there are many many more competitors now and almost all of them ignore device orientation completely.

    Last post on this. fix that issue and 95% of PWA WordPress web-apps will resolve one of the biggest UI issues with PWA and most complained about on The Register.
    #:-)

    Plugin Author SuperPWA

    (@superpwa)

    Thanks for the concern about our plugin. We will look into this.

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