[webkit-dev] Gamepad API [Was: New feature flag proposal: Joystick API]

[Michael Nordman]

Its obvious that a naming nit is a not a good reason to block development
behind a flag.

Is the the true basis for that r- expressed in this comment?
"The concern here as I understand it is that providing low level access to
every possible controller creates fragmentation, with purportedly "HTML"
content that only works on a few devices. There is no clear cut border here
- it's been mentioned that even touch events can be seen as rare - and then
I advocate that adding more mouse specific events is a bad idea for the same
reason."


But that concern also shouldn't block initial development behind a flag.
Seems like that concern should be brought up with the WG.



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Alexey appears to strongly dislike the name of this API specification (
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/raw-file/default/gamepad.html), so much so
> that he is blocking development of the API behind a flag.
>
> As a reminder, this API is being developed through the WebEvents WG jointly
> with other browser vendors, including Mozilla.  Folks working on this appear
> to be content with the Gamepad name, precisely because the spec is limited
> to dealing with input devices that are represented in terms of buttons and
> axes.  Gamepad seems like a fairly canonical name for such a device, even
> though devices by other names can be represented by similar data.
>
> Does anyone else feel strongly enough that the name of the API is so bad
> that it should therefore not be allowed onto WebKit trunk behind a flag?
>
> Personally, I feel like the name is quite malleable at this point in time,
> and I really like coming up with the best possible name for things.
>  However, I don't see why we need to have the perfect name before we
> continue development of this feature behind a flag.
>
> As we were developing Blob and File support, we made several name changes
> along the way.  It is not always so obvious how to name things from the
> start.
>
> See this bug for reference:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69451
>
> Thoughts?
> -Darin
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> 06.10.2011, в 13:49, Scott Graham написал(а):
>>
>>  The first revision of the spec (from the Scope section) is intended to
>> handle:
>>
>> ... support for devices common to current gaming systems including
>> gamepads, directional pads, joysticks, wheels, pedals, accelerometers.
>>
>>
>> Why does the spec title and abstract talk about gamepads (joysticks)
>> only? Perhaps it's my mistake that I didn't read the scope section, but with
>> title and abstract being so specific, that seemed unnecessary.
>>
>> Skipping scope section, I went right to IDL. Why is the interface called
>> Gamepad if it's not only about gamepads?
>>
>>  - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
>>
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