Intent to Ship: Pointer Lock on Android

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

abd...@google.com, lt-web-a...@google.com

Specification

https://www.w3.org/TR/pointerlock-2

Summary

Provides access to raw mouse movement by locking the target of mouse events to a single element and hiding the mouse cursor.

Blink component

Blink>Input>PointerLock

Web Feature ID

pointer-lock

Motivation

The Pointer Lock API provides applications the ability to directly interpret mouse movements as an input method, rather than being limited to only reading the position of the mouse cursor. A popular example is that of first person movement controls in three dimensional graphics applications such as games: movement of the mouse is interpreted to control the rotation/direction of the player's camera; no mouse cursor is displayed, and the movement is not limited to the traditional boundaries (such as the user agent's window, or the overall screen) that the mouse cursor is usually subject to, meaning that any mouse movements can be tracked indefinitely in any direction. See a Simple Demo: (https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/pointer-lock/), and used in e.g. Xbox Cloud Gaming, GeForce Now, Amazon Luna, poki.com, crazygames.com, autodesk.com, etc. The pointer lock API is supported on Desktop platforms, this feature is for supporting this API for Android.

Initial public proposal

No information provided

TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Not applicable

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No information provided

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

No information provided

Debuggability

No information provided

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

PointerLockOnAndroid

Rollout plan

Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://g-issues.chromium.org/issues/40290045

Launch bug

https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4386186

Estimated milestones

Shipping on Android

144

Anticipated spec changes

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Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6739764319485952?gate=4680627611893760

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