- From: Scott Graham <scottmg@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:02:21 -0700
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
- Cc: Ted Mielczarek <ted@mielczarek.org>
Received on Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:02:48 UTC
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
Received on Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:02:48 UTC