On http://status.modern.ie/ Microsoft lists Pointer Lock as still "Under Consideration"
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Vincent Scheib <[email protected]> wrote: > Implementation status: > Chrome: Implemented with prefix, in stable version. > Firefox: Implemented with prefix, in stable version. > IE: No implementation progress known. Issue: > http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/793718/ie11-feature-request-support-for-pointer-lock-api > Safari: No implementation progress known. > Opera: No implementation progress known. > > Test suite status: > Two basic tests exist: > http://w3c-test.org/pointerlock/constructor.html > http://w3c-test.org/pointerlock/idlharness.html > which fail in Chrome and Firefox due to prefixing, and likely correctness > issues are masked by this. > > Plan to "complete" test suite: > - Implementations need to start using W3C tests that exist > - Thus implementations need to support unprefixed pointer lock. > - Chromium issue: > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=359740 > - More tests are needed. > - Chromium and Mozilla have possible candidates for upstreaming. > - I sense little prioritization from either organization to do this > soon. (Correct me if Mozilla has anyone available to do this) > > Additional specification discussion: > Artillery started a discussion "Problems with mouse-edge scrolling and > games" in public-webapps Feb 21 2014 raising the topic of limiting pointer > movement to a rectangular area. This is addressed in the spec FAQ for why > it is postponed from the initial version, and in the recent thread the > result was a call for prototype. I don't have resources to build it out, > though would accept others doing so. If this was done rapidly and Mozilla > was interested in incorporating changes as well there's the possibility > that Pointer Lock spec should be updated to include clipping. Otherwise, I > believe a follow up specification at a later time is more appropriate, > keeping Pointer Lock narrow and moving to complete the specification. >
