Question

We’re writing a mobile app using jQuery mobile and do most of the javascript debugging in Chrome. One thing I can’t test however is an orientation change, from portrait to landscape and vice versa. I have to use a phone to fire that event, and am unable to debug the javascript window.orientationchange event without Chrome.

Or so it would seem. Is there a way to mock this event in Chrome somehow?

Answer 1

Since a desktop device doesn’t have any real orientation changes, like mobile devices does have, it’s no use to listen to orientationchange. You could simulate orientation by resizing the browser window though.

David Walsh wrote an article about this: http://davidwalsh.name/orientation-change