devicemotion: rotationRate is not implemented according to specification about deviceorientation HOT 8 CLOSED

/cc @timvolodine

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I don't think it's a good idea to break a specification to match a broken implementation. Fix the implementation. Alpha is the rotation around the z axis for deviceorientation, and rotationRate should match it. The only question is whether the spec should be left as-is, or whether it should be replaced by renaming alpha-beta-gamma (maybe to Alpha-Beta-Gamma?) and the old names deprecated and redefined to match the broken implementation to avoid breaking existing code. Either way, it would take about 5 minutes to make this fix.

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The change to Chrome's behavior was discussed and approved on this thread with the change becoming the default behavior in Chrome 66.

Someone with permission to do so please close this issue.

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(I think @timvolodine is still able to close this issue if we can grab his attention.)

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On that thread I only see discussion of fixing the units (radians/sec vs. degrees/sec), not fixing the axes.

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Ah, my mistake. I still support updating the specification on the definition of the axis given that there is a defacto standard in place by the agreement on this behavior by a majority of mobile browsers.

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Slightly OT, but if someone is wondering why no spec progress recently:

The spec has been without a home after the Geolocation WG closed 30 April 2017, and as a side-effect has accummulated a bunch of open issues and PRs. We expect to resume work on this spec when the Devices and Sensors WG adopts it starting 1 July 2018. So bear with us for a little while!

Also, anyone interested in editing the spec, please get in touch :-)

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Pull request #43 has been merged. Closing this issue.

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