1496755 - Request For Gamepad Haptics API Support In FireFox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 680289

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, enhancement, P4)

Description

[TheRealDannyyy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce:

Chrome M68 added support for the GamePad API vibration extension. This feature allows selected gamepads to vibrate, which greatly improves the immersion of HTML5 games. In an effort to make this new feature available across all browsers, I would like to request official support for this feature inside future releases of FireFox.

Below you can find links and references for more information:
- Gamepad Haptics API proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jPKzVRNzzU4dUsvLpSXm1VXPQZ8FP-0lKMT-R_p-s6g/edit
- Gamepad Vibration Test: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/yKgYGz
- Chrome Platform Status: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5705158763741184


Actual results:

Vibrating selected gamepads doesn't work in FireFox because the required API is currently not supported.


Expected results:

FireFox should have support for the new Gamepad Haptics API just like Chrome already has and vibrating supported gamepads should work fine.

Comment 1

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

This already has an issue filed on our Standards Position repo, though not much discussion there as it was still early in development at the time it was filed.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/49

Comment 2

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

Forgot we already had an older bug for this. Marking this as a dupe, will update that bug with Chrome information.

Comment 3

[TheRealDannyyy]

Thanks for the info, will follow the progress there!

Would appreciate if more browsers like FireFox, could help with the standardization of this feature.
Popular HTML5 game engines such as Construct 3 (https://www.construct.net/en), already make use of this feature but it's currently limited to Chrome only.


Cheers!