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I'm a bit sad that first Pointer Events which had support for pressure/tilt from pen input got killed, and now NPAPI which drove the Wacom Plugin is also dead.
by dtf 12y ago
I'm a bit sad that first Pointer Events which had support for pressure/tilt from pen input got killed, and now NPAPI which drove the Wacom Plugin is also dead. Seems there's no future route now to get pen input (eg Wacom, Samsung S-Pen) into Chrome apps.
- soult 12y agoI don't know what exactly you want to do with the pen input, but you could use native messaging[0] to get the data into chrome. Basically a small, native program that (bidirectionally) communicates with a Chrome extension via JSON. I used the same approach to get customer signatures from a Wacom signature tablet into a web app. 0: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/messaging#native-messaging https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/messaging#native-mes...
- dtf 12y agoThanks! I'll look into that. Currently I'm piping evdev (ie /dev/input/event*) events through a WebSocket for use in my own personal apps/experiments on Linux. I'd love to see browser pen support though... maybe something could be added to Touch Events? It's just such a nice, precise form of input.
- kuschku 12y agoActually, there is an implementation of Touch Events (the Microsoft one) that already supports all this...
- wlesieutre 12y agoIs that Microsoft's "Pointer Events" that Google has decided not to support? http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google-to-drop-microsoft-designed-touch-web-spec-stick-with-apple-tech/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google...
- ygra 12y agoBut that's just a Chrome-only solution again, requiring you to use a different method for each browser. A plugin at least gives you a few ones in one solution.
- AYBABTME 12y agoOP was asking about `Chrome apps`
- Touche 12y agoWhat do you mean by Point Events getting killed? Here's the http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-pointerevents-20141113/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-pointerevents-20141113/
- ygra 12y agoI guess they mean that Chrome won't implement Pointer Events: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google-to-drop-microsoft-designed-touch-web-spec-stick-with-apple-tech/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google...
- Touche 12y agoAh, I didn't hear about this. Too bad.
- jarek-foksa 12y agoChrome team is planning to extend the touch events with stylus-specific functionality: https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1x-yE4CmTZlZQXea4_FPjgly5TOvF28UBNs9gZ5aGUhg/ https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1x-yE4CmTZ...