[w3ctag/design-reviews] Incubation: Web Haptics API (Issue #1284)

kyerebo created an issue (w3ctag/design-reviews#1284)

### Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/web-haptics/blob/main/readme.md

### The explainer

- [x] Includes the information requested by the [Explainer Explainer](https://w3ctag.github.io/explainer-explainer/#introduction).
- [x] Follows the [Web Platform Design Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/).
- [ ] Includes or links to answers to the [Security/Privacy Questionnaire](https://www.w3.org/TR/security-privacy-questionnaire/).
- [ ] Describes user research you did to validate the problem and/or design.

### Where and by whom is the work is being done?

Requesting an early pre-spec design review.
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/WICG/web-haptics/
- Primary contacts:
  - Alex Kyereboah (@kyerebo), Microsoft, Engineer
  - Limin Zhu (@liminzhu), Microsoft, PM
- Organization/project driving the design: Microsoft
- This work is being funded by: Microsoft
- Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
  - [CSSWG Proposal for Declarative API](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13728)
  - [WICG Proposal](https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/262)
- Standards group(s) that you expect to discuss and/or adopt this work when it's
  ready: WICG for the imperative API, CSSWG for the declarative API. 


### Feedback so far

- Multi-stakeholder feedback:
  - Chromium comments: We are proposing the feature.
  - Mozilla comments: No spec exists yet, no position requested.
  - WebKit comments: No spec exists yet, no position requested.

- Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design:
  - The declarative API (CSS) is in-between two designs currently, the `@haptic` rule or the event-trigger model. 

### You should also know that...

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