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And which devices that support Firefox or Chrome actually have accelerometers? It doesn't work on my Froyo phone...

ThinkPads, Mac Laptops

Doesn't work on my new Thinkpad T510, running Ubuntu and Chromium 9.0.

I know it has an accelerometer (I've seen the bundled Windows software use it), but I don't know where the API to access that data is.

See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS .

I am not sure whether Firefox or Chrome/Chromium on Linux will actually read the data that is provided by hdaps.

Thank you! :)

Works on my iPhone with Safari and my MacBook with Chrome, but not on my MacBook with Safari. Go figure.

It doesn't only support Firefox and chrome, but my N900 has both and it works fine (though slowly).

the nexus 1/s, probably.

Default Nexus 1 install has a Mobile Webkit browser, which doesn't even get the interactive version.

It works - somewhat - on an iPad - but there's a problem in that tilting the iPad makes the screen rotate and locking the screen seems to disable the tilt events.

Best experience is on a MacBook with Chrome, IMHO.

Incredible that the clever google logo doesn't work on the google phone...

I just tried it with my mac. I was surprised that chrome had access to the accelerometers. I thought they were only used to make sure the hard drive doesn't die in case of dropage.

where's the one that switching workspaces when you tap the left/right side of the laptop?

Ditto default Nexus S. Dang.

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