This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
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The quaternion read-only property of the OrientationSensor interface returns a four element Array whose elements contain the components of the unit quaternion representing the device's orientation.
Because OrientationSensor is a base class, quaternion may only be read from one of its derived classes.
An Array whose values are the x, y, z, and w components of the quaternion representing the device orientation.
// TBD
| Specification |
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| Orientation Sensor> # orientationsensor-quaternion> |
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
quaternion |
67 | 79 | No | 54 | No | 67 | No | 48 | No | 9.0 | 67 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OrientationSensor/quaternion