While the Silicon Valley is merely a figurative Mecca for all things tech, Apple could require people to be facing Cupertino if you want to watch a WWDC stream :D
(And yes, CSS can rotate around all three axes, so you could make a div that resists rotating your device in addition to resisting translation...)
Sometimes there is no size setting that will get the text lines on a page to fit horizontally without making the text too small to read. Making it large enough to read means lots of left and right scrolling which is annoying.
A mode where moving the phone sideways scrolls the text at a matching rate so that the experience is similar to reading a page with a magnifying glass might be handy.
Wrapping is fine on some material, but when there are tables it can be very annoying.