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The main purpose of that is to use the value for computation. It's a bit of a shame that it is a string. Let's make it an number so developers don't have to use parseInt() on it. Also, it will solve some issues Peter Beverloo had (regarding watches that could have non rectangular screen).
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/screen-orientation/rev/2c7b0a46fe3e