Neither of the words "security" or "privacy" appear in this spec (most w3 web specs have at least a token attempt at a "Privacy and Security Considerations" section). At a surface glance this appears to add additional fingerprinting exposure. Have you talked to the privacy team about ways to minimize this?
-Dan Veditz On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:45 AM Daosheng Mu <d...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Summary: > In order to support controllers which have multi touch and light bar > features like Sony DualShock 4. The `*multi touch*` and `*light indicator*` > APIs for gamepad extensions are the things we must have. In > `*GamepadTouch*` > API, it would make us know touch surface's dimension and its unique id. We > also will have a way to know where is the place we are touching according > to its position and the unique id. Regarding to `*GamepadLightIndicator*`, > it could tell users the color of controller's light bar. The color is a > 8-bit size integer for defining `*red*`, `*green*`, `*blue*`, or other > colors to indicate the on-off light indicator is ON. > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523350 > > Link to standard: > W3C Multi touch spec proposal: > https://github.com/knyg/gamepad/blob/multitouch/extensions.html > W3C Light indicator spec proposal: > https://github.com/knyg/gamepad/blob/lightindicator/extensions.html > > Platform coverage: Windows, Mac OS, Linux > > Estimated or target release: Firefox 68 > > Preference behind which this will be implemented: > "dom.gamepad.extensions.multitouch" and > "dom.gamepad.extensions.lightindicator" > > Do other browser engines implement this? Nope > > web-platform-tests: none exist (and I don't plan to write WPTs but we do > have gamepad mochitest, I will add new tests to cover these two new APIs.) > > Is this feature restricted to secure contexts? Nope > > How stable is the spec? This is a proposal from a vendor, I suppose it > would be some minor adjustments coming when other developers start to > implement it. I would suggest to make it pref'd off by default until this > proposal be merged to w3c's branch. > > > -- > Daosheng Mu > Software Engineer | Mozilla > d...@mozilla.com > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
