708379 - Haptic buzz when tapping on clickable elements

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

<johnath> madhava: should we use haptics on link clicks, or is that a terrible, terrible idea?
<madhava> johnath: not against it
<johnath> madhava: I'll put it in a bug
<chofmann> johnath: that would solve my feedback problem, not understanding if my link click actually happened...

I suspect it's cheap, maybe worth experimenting with having a haptic buzz triggered by link navigations, to make them feel a little more prominent?

Not sure where haptics would land, cc'ng some people who will know, though.

Comment 1

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/system/nsIHapticFeedback.idl#54

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

dupe of bug 595441? or would we track for native separately?

by the way, I love this idea.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: WIP

This should work, but isn't. The method is getting called when we tap links and buttons in web content. Yes, I have haptic feedback "on" in settings.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: patch

This patch adds support for "performHapticFeedback" back into GeckoAppShell. It also limits the haptic feedback to "clickable" elements.

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/b4293d6a23ff

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b4293d6a23ff

Comment 7

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

I um... *really* like this.

Asa maybe disagrees, or maybe is seeing more than the expected quantity of haptics? ( https://twitter.com/#!/asadotzler/status/145926037845458945 )

Asa - are you disliking the feature as-designed, or do you have a new bug for us?

Comment 8

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath] from comment #7)
> I um... *really* like this.
> 
> Asa maybe disagrees, or maybe is seeing more than the expected quantity of
> haptics? ( https://twitter.com/#!/asadotzler/status/145926037845458945 )
> 
> Asa - are you disliking the feature as-designed, or do you have a new bug
> for us?

bug 709048

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I am seeing haptic buzz every time I touch the screen. I think that's too much. On link clicks or form button presses, etc. I think the buzz is nice. On scrolling and panning and other actions, it feels like way too much.

Comment 10

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Asa Dotzler [:asa] from comment #9)
> I am seeing haptic buzz every time I touch the screen. I think that's too
> much. On link clicks or form button presses, etc. I think the buzz is nice.
> On scrolling and panning and other actions, it feels like way too much.

That should be fixed by bug 709048.