- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:53:21 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Olli@pettay.fi, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Vincent Scheib <scheib@google.com>, Brandon Andrews <warcraftthreeft@sbcglobal.net>, "Gregg Tavares (wrk)" <gman@google.com>, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, public-webapps@w3.org
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote: >> On 06/21/2011 01:08 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Olli Pettay<Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> >>> wrote: >>>> On 06/21/2011 12:25 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>>>> The use-case is non-fullscreen games and similar, where you'd prefer >>>>> to lock the mouse as soon as the user clicks into the game. Minecraft >>>>> is the first example that pops into my head that works like this - >>>>> it's windowed, and mouselocks you as soon as you click at it. >>>> >>>> And how would user unlock when some evil sites locks the mouse? >>>> Could you give some concrete example about >>>> " It's probably also useful to instruct the user how to release the >>>> lock." >>> >>> I'm assuming that the browser reserves some logical key (like Esc) for >>> releasing things like this, and communicates this in the overlay >>> message. >> >> And what if the web page moves focus to some browser window, so that ESC >> is fired there? Or what if the web page moves the window to be outside the >> screen so that user can't actually see the message how to >> unlock mouse? > > How is a webpage able to do either of those things? window.focus() Adam
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