On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Jeff Gilbert <jgilb...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Luke Wagner <lwag...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > FWIW, I was wondering if we could go a step further and allow > > (optional) user interaction with the rendered DOM elements. That way > > you could, say, select text on a 3d surface with a mouse or use an > > <input> tag. It seems like this would be possible if the vertex/pixel > > shaders were constrained to, say, affine transformations which starts > > to sound rather similar to the whitelisting approach mentioned > > elsewhere in this thread for mitigating timing attacks. > > I think this should be handled outside of the WebGL API. This seems to > be a bunch of extra work and complexity to handle a relatively narrow > use-case. I believe it's much easier to just provide functionality in > the platform to allow a library to implement such specific uses. > Some features are always going to be really hard to provide with fully custom UI. For example <input type="file">, for security reasons. Also full custom UI for text entry is practically impossible to implement on par with browser built-in UI, due to the need to integrate with system IMEs, assistive tech, spellchecking dictionaries, etc. That's why I think finding ways to integrate live Web content into WebGL scenes would be really valuable. Rob -- lbir ye,ea yer.tnietoehr rdn rdsme,anea lurpr edna e hnysnenh hhe uresyf toD selthor stor edna siewaoeodm or v sstvr esBa kbvted,t rdsme,aoreseoouoto o l euetiuruewFa kbn e hnystoivateweh uresyf tulsa rehr rdm or rnea lurpr .a war hsrer holsa rodvted,t nenh hneireseoouot.tniesiewaoeivatewt sstvr esn _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
