Detecting orientation change on BlackBerry 9800 via JavaScript

Question

I have a bit of JavaScript (jQuery) to catch orientationchange and create a JS alert when triggered:

$('document').ready(function(){

    $('body').bind('orientationchange', function(e){
        alert('orientation change triggered');
    });

});

link: http://jsbin.com/owebax/4

That works fine on an iPhone. It doesn't work on a BlackBerry 9800 running OS6.

In doing some googling, it appears that the issue might be that BlackBerry watches 'window' rather than 'body' for orientation change. I bound the event to window instead: http://jsbin.com/owebax/5

But that still doesn't work on the Blackberry (and now no longer will work on the iPhone.)

Has anyone got orientationchange JS events to fire on the BlackBerry 9800?

does this help: http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Web-and-WebWorks-Development/Detect-screen-orientation-changes-using-JavaScript/ta-p/445755 — icchanobot, Oct 04 '11 at 03:00
Yes, it does! In a roundabout way it got me to play with the code some more before finally slapping my forehead in embarrassment. My answer below. ;) — DA., Oct 04 '11 at 04:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 04:58

I wish that in addition to 'your answer' for answering your question there was a 'embarrassing user error' flag of some sorts.

So it turns out my issue was simple syntax snafu. Instead of trying to bind to window properly as such:

$(window).bind...

I was looking for a tag called 'window'

$('window').bind...

'doh!

Detecting orientation change on BlackBerry 9800 via JavaScript

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