1226575 - 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator is not recognized by the Gamepad API on Windows

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, defect, P5)

Description

[Timo Sturm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

System: Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit

1. Connect the 3Dconnexion Spacenavigator (http://www.3dconnexion.de/products/spacemouse/spacenavigator.html)
2. Open Firefox 42.0 or Beta or Nightly and go to: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/gamepad/gamepad-tester/tester.html
3. Try to interact 


Actual results:

The SpaceNavigator is not recognized and nothing happens 


Expected results:

The Gamepad API should recognizes the SpaceNavigator like in Chrome or Firefox 41.0.2 on Ubuntu 15.04

Comment 1

[Sylvain Zimmer]

I can confirm this is the case as well on latest Mac OS with Firefox 48.0. Works perfectly with Chrome.

http://html5gamepad.com/ or doing "navigator.getGamepads()" in the console is useful to test as the link above is broken.

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Kyle Machulis [:qdot] [:kmachulis] (INACTIVE)]

Leaving this open, 'cause it's a valid feature request.

That said, the SpaceNavigator doesn't expose itself as a regular HID device, which is why our APIs don't pick it up. There's special case code to do this in Chrome.