Comment by gmueckl

4 months ago

Every decent host OS already has a dedicated driver stack to provide game controller input to applications in a useful manner. Why the heck would you ship a reimplementation of that in JS in a website?

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shadowgovt  4 months ago

So that you can take input from countrollers that haven't been invented yet and won't fit the HID model.

  • gmueckl  4 months ago

    If it hasn't been invented yet, you don't need driver software for it, do you? ;)

    Anyway, in your scenario the controller would be essentially a one off and you'd be better off writing a native app to interface with it for the one computer this experiment will run on.

  • account42  4 months ago

    If it hasn't been invented yet we don't know the implications of giving a website access to it either.

    And that's before realizing it's already a bad idea with existing devices because they were never designed for giving untrusted actors direct access.