Javascript. Listen for iPhone shake event?

Is it possible to list开发者_高级运维en for an iPhone (or any mobile phone with accelerometer) shake event with JavaScript? You know like shaking the iPhone to shuffle the next song in iTunes I want to call a JS function on my website when the iPhone got shaken.

In the latest iOS update (4.2) the accelorometer is now accessible from Javascript.

See: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-html5

Here's an elegant implementation of shake detection using the accelerometer if anyone is looking for it:

https://github.com/alexgibson/shake.js

I just implemented the above in my web app which now has controls that appear on the page only after a device shake occurs. Very easy to implement and cleanly described.

https://github.com/alexgibson/shake.js

It is also worth noting that the iOS simulator's shake gesture doesn't trigger the event but a genuine device shake does.

Not as a straight web app, no. If you wrap your web app in PhoneGap, it exposes accelerometer and other app-only features to the site running within it, but the downside is that people have to actually download your app - they can't just browse to a site in Safari.