Hi Daniel, We didn't have a chance to discuss privacy issues in Gamepad Extension or Gamepad API. We were trying to get responses for the Privacy review [1] but without any updates yet.
Cheers, [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2018AprJun/0030.html -- Daosheng Mu Software Engineer | Mozilla d...@mozilla.com On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:47 PM Daniel Veditz <dved...@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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
