1486297 - Option to disable Pointer Lock API

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P3)

Description

[Edgaras]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180807170231

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open web app with Pointer Lock API
2. Mouse is captured by API


Actual results:

If user has no access to keyboard (ex. user has physical disability and uses only mouse), there are no way to exit mouse locked app without Esc key.

One way is to push power button to shutdown computer.

Disabled user can only call assistant to click Esc on keyboard.


Expected results:

Firefox could have config option to completely disable API, or option to ask for permission.

Also it could be some method to exit with mouse only, for example hold left and right button for 5 seconds.

Comment 1

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Xidorn, what do you think we should do here? Have a pref? I don't think keyboard-less setups are something we'd consider tier 1.

Comment 2

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+11]

Yeah, we can probably put it behind a pref. It should be trivial to add such support.

Comment 3

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+11]

Attachment: Bug 1486297 - Add a pref for Pointer Lock API so that user can disable it. r=smaug!

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 9005105 [details]
Bug 1486297 - Add a pref for Pointer Lock API so that user can disable it. r=smaug!

Olli Pettay [:smaug] has approved the revision.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/86ec37344b44
Add a pref for Pointer Lock API so that user can disable it. r=smaug!

Comment 6

[Raul Gurzau (:RaulG)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/86ec37344b44