#1284: Incubation: Web Haptics API

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Opened Sep 24, 2026

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/web-haptics/blob/main/readme.md

The explainer

Where and by whom is the work is being done?

Requesting an early pre-spec design review.

  • GitHub repo: https://github.com/WICG/web-haptics/
  • Primary contacts:
    • Alex Kyereboah (@kyerebo), Microsoft, Engineer
    • Limin Zhu (@liminzhu), Microsoft, PM
  • Organization/project driving the design: Microsoft
  • This work is being funded by: Microsoft
  • Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
  • Standards group(s) that you expect to discuss and/or adopt this work when it's ready: WICG for the imperative API, CSSWG for the declarative API.

Feedback so far

  • Multi-stakeholder feedback:

    • Chromium comments: We are proposing the feature.
    • Mozilla comments: No spec exists yet, no position requested.
    • WebKit comments: No spec exists yet, no position requested.
  • Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design:

    • The declarative API (CSS) is in-between two designs currently, the @haptic rule or the event-trigger model.

You should also know that...

The declarative API could use direction on which model would be the most appropriate, but the imperative API is more straight-forward and is currently receiving direct developer testing.

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