Contact emails
[email protected], [email protected]

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 eg 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

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop 
issues. Please list open issues (eg links to known github issues in the project 
for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web 
compat/interop risk (eg, changing to naming or structure of the API in a 
non-backward-compatible way).
No information provided


Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/6739764319485952?gate=4680627611893760


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