Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-05 Thread Vincent Scheib
For those with threaded email clients, at Arthur's suggestion I've filed an issue to track this topic. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012OctDec/0040.html. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 6:14 PM,

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Pearce
On 27/09/12 08:37, Vincent Scheib wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: On 9/26/12 11:46 AM, ext Vincent Scheib wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: * Pointer Lock - Vincent - what's the status of the

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Florian Bösch
I'd like to point out that vendors are using additional failure criteria to determine if pointerlock succeeds that are not outlined in the specification. Firefox uses the fullscreen change event to determine failure and chrome requires the pointer lock request to fail if not resulting from a user

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Olli Pettay
On 10/02/2012 11:55 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: I'd like to point out that vendors are using additional failure criteria to determine if pointerlock succeeds that are not outlined in the specification. Firefox uses the fullscreen change event to determine failure and chrome requires the pointer

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Florian Bösch
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fiwrote: On 10/02/2012 11:55 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: I'd like to point out that vendors are using additional failure criteria to determine if pointerlock succeeds that are not outlined in the specification. Firefox uses the

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Vincent Scheib
I agree that pointer lock is quite useful outside of fullscreen, but before attempting to codify that in the specification I would want buy in from other browser vendors. I can appreciate an argument to remain restricted to fullscreen. Application developers can automatically escalate to

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Olli Pettay
On 10/03/2012 12:59 AM, Florian Bösch wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi mailto:olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 10/02/2012 11:55 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: I'd like to point out that vendors are using additional failure criteria to

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Florian Bösch
Speaking from the point of view of a web developer having to use this feature. It is quite painful having to perform an end-run about failure modes that are unspecified, undocumented and a moving target. In my understanding, this is precisely the intent of a specification, to avoid such

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-10-02 Thread Rick Waldron
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: Speaking from the point of view of a web developer having to use this feature. It is quite painful having to perform an end-run about failure modes that are unspecified, undocumented and a moving target. In my understanding,

[pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-09-26 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 9/26/12 11:46 AM, ext Vincent Scheib wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: * Pointer Lock - Vincent - what's the status of the spec and its implementation? Firefox 14 and Chrome 22 shipped Pointer Lock implementations to stable channel users

Re: [pointerlock] Is Pointer Lock feature complete i.e. LC ready? [Was: Re: [admin] Publishing specs before TPAC: CfC start deadline is Oct 15]

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent Scheib
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: On 9/26/12 11:46 AM, ext Vincent Scheib wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: * Pointer Lock - Vincent - what's the status of the spec and its implementation? Firefox