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Wacom web browser plugin?

I found this web page which describes in detail a browser plugin that exposes Wacom tablet features such as pressure sensitivity in JavaScript. Unfortunately, the download link is dead. Does this product exist?

Solution

  • Pressure sensitivity is now exposed by the browser's Pointer Events API for all supported tablets (not just Wacom). Pointer events such as onpointermove will contain a "pressure" field that ranges between 0.0 and 1.0.

    Pointer Events are supported by Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer (10+), Microsoft Edge and Safari (13+) on macOS and Windows 8+ (Windows 7 doesn't provide pressure information). See:

    https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer