Wacom web browser plugin?

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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?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 26 '20 at 14:19

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

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '14 at 15:14

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Also, someone has written a Linux plugin using NPAPI: https://github.com/ZaneA/WacomWebPlugin

answered Aug 29 '14 at 15:14

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '14 at 06:33

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plugin file is included in Driver Installer.

If you extract Wacom Pentablet driver installer for Windows (this is executable zip archive), you can find TabletPlugins\fbWTPInstall_x86.exe (and fbWTPInstall_x64.exe).

This file is "Wacom Tablet Plugin installer for Netscape Browsers". So, execute it, then available Web browser plugin demos.

answered Apr 30 '14 at 06:33

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Where do I find this? – Nick Retallack Aug 29 '14 at 18:27

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 22 '18 at 05:27

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Unfortunately the plugin uses NPAPI, and browsers are progressively dropping support for that (Chrome, Firefox), so it seems like the driver is no longer useful right now.

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answered Mar 06 '16 at 08:36

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 29 '14 at 19:37

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Visit the new site here:

http://us.wacom.com/developerrelations

It's true that the plugin itself is contained in the driver.

answered Aug 29 '14 at 19:37

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What do I do at this link? – Nick Retallack Sep 01 '14 at 04:13
Click on 'Web', wasn't that what you were looking for? Perhaps you can explain what it is you seek, and for what purpose? – KIKO Software Sep 01 '14 at 06:06

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