Re: [gamepad] Polling access point

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:

> What triggers us to stop polling the gamepad?  When the object returned
> by getGamepads() gets garbage collected?


Currently, when the renderer goes away (or more specifically, when all
renderers that are using the gamepad api go away).


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> Adam
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Scott Graham <scottmg@chromium.org>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Travis, that seems like the "least surprising" solution.
>>
>> I guess getGamepads() would be the preferred name by analog with
>> getUserMedia() then.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Travis Leithead <
>> travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Going to a function-based design is typically preferable (especially
>>> to making an attribute non-enumerable). This is the approach taken by
>>> getUserMedia.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *From:* scottmg@google.com [mailto:scottmg@google.com] *On Behalf Of *Scott
>>> Graham
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:02 PM
>>> *To:* public-webapps@w3.org
>>> *Cc:* Ted Mielczarek
>>> *Subject:* [gamepad] Polling access point****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Hi,****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> It looks like the access point for the polling part of the API
>>> (navigator.gamepads[]) is not a good idea.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Based on a prototype implementation, pages seem to have a tendency to
>>> enumerate Navigator. When the .gamepads[] attribute is accessed, it causes
>>> possibly expensive background resources to be created to access hardware,
>>> even though the content is not really interested in reading data from the
>>> hardware.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Possible solutions:****
>>>
>>> - change from navigator.gamepads[] to navigator.gamepads() (or
>>> navigator.getGamepads()) to be more explicit about when the API is actually
>>> being used****
>>>
>>> - require something to activate the API (meta tag, calling some sort of
>>> "start" function)****
>>>
>>> - require registering for at least one gamepad-related event before data
>>> is provided in gamepads[].****
>>>
>>> - make .gamepads[] non-enumerable****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Any thoughts or other suggestions?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Thanks,****
>>>
>>> scott****
>>>
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