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I have a test where the accelerometer works, but when you rotate the iPad, the accelerometer doesn't change direction. Is it possible to detect device orientation in Impact?

Are you planning on wrapping the game as a native app? If so, all the wrappers out there that I've seen have that functionality already available (AppMobi and Titanium both do).

No, I want to see if it can be made to work when you visit the website with the iPad. What I am making is not stand-alone and must exist in the contexte of a website.

You should be able to use standard javascript for this. The solution may be different in iPhone and Android:

Here is what looks to be a decent write up of this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1649086/detect-rotation-of-android-phone-in-the-browser-with-javascript

here's what I used.

		window.onorientationchange = function() {
		  var orientation = window.orientation;
		  switch(orientation) {
		    case 0:
		       // portrait - do something		
				break; 
       
		    case 90:
				// landscape - do something
		        break;
   
		    case -90: 
				// landscape - do something
				break;
		  }
		}