[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 206033] Standard gamepad mapping for GameControllerGamepads

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206033

--- Comment #11 from Dean Jackson <dino at apple.com> ---
(In reply to James Howard from comment #8)
> > Also, it seems you added the mapping field, but we only support the canonical standard mapping. 
> 
> There are two supported mappings, "" and "standard" [1]. Prior to my patch,
> WebKit only offered the empty string mapping. After my patch, we continue to
> provide empty string mapping for gamepads whose physical layout we're either
> unaware of, or that don't correspond to the standard layout (HID gamepads on
> Mac, micro gamepads on iOS). For now, I'm just providing the standard
> mapping for the GCExtendedGamepads, because it's very straightforward.
> 
> As for what we should do for Mac, we could start recognizing certain vendor
> / product ID tuples in HIDGamepad and do the standard mapping for them. We'd
> end up having to bundle some sort of database of these controllers, similar
> to what SDL does for instance. The other alternative would be to make
> GameController the preferred API for gamepads on macOS 10.15+ and move off
> of the HIDGamepad implementation. Personally, I like the simplicity of using
> GameController.framework as it pushes the controller database issue off to
> them and unifies the code between iOS and Mac. I'm happy to contribute
> either approach in a follow-up patch if you have a stance on which approach
> you'd like to see.

I agree that using GameController.framework is best.

> > Do we plan to add labels for the types of controllers we do support?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean. Gamepads have an id field, which is just a
> string identifier. With GameController.framework examples of these are
> "Nimbus Extended Gamepad" or "Xbox Wireless Controller Extended Gamepad". I
> didn't change that in this patch. In terms of the mapping, there are
> currently just two in the spec: "" and "standard" [1].
> 
> [1] https://w3c.github.io/gamepad/#gamepadmappingtype-enum

Got it!

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