Prevent orientation change in iOS Safari

Question

Is it possible to avoid transition to landscape view in Safari for iOS when the device is rotated?

iOS Safari has the \"orentationchange\" event, I tried to intercep

Answer 1

Maybe in a new future...

As for May 2015,

there is an experimental functionality that does that. But it only works on Firefox 18+, IE11+, and Chrome 38+.

However, it does not work on Opera or Safari yet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/lockOrientation#Browser_compatibility

Here is the current code for the compatible browsers:

var lockOrientation = screen.lockOrientation || screen.mozLockOrientation || screen.msLockOrientation;

lockOrientation("landscape-primary");