Wacom web browser plugin?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Visit the new site here:

http://us.wacom.com/developerrelations

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