Re: controller vibration / rumble

Thanks. I'll try to finish up my poc for now, using the vibrations api.
I'll take any future questions to the public-device-apis list.

Mkkl.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Ted Mielczarek <ted@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 8/5/2013 1:11 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Mikkel Staunsholm <staunsholm@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Any comments on that?
> >> Should it resemble the vibrations api more (with patterns, and turning
> it
> >> off by setting strength to 0)?
> >> Should it be in the vibrations api instead (I don't think so)?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Mikkel Staunsholm
> >> @staunsholm
> >>
> >>
> >> PS! I don't know if it is possible/feasible to make rumbling work on
> >> osx/linux - fx. JInput doesn't report any ps3 rumblers on osx...
> > It seems pretty clear to me that controller rumbling should be as
> > closely matched with phone vibration as possible.
> >
> >
> We've discussed this before, and I'm pretty sure we'd rather just use
> the existing Vibration API exposed via a Gamepad object somehow. If that
> API doesn't do everything we need then it'd be better to discuss changes
> in the scope of that spec rather than inventing a whole new API for
> something so similar.
>
> -Ted
>
>

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