solved [SOLVED] [Firefox] Cannot rotate camera when pointer outside canvas

[Gijs]

Hi,

On Firefox the camera stops rotating when your pointer leaves the canvas:

http://playground.babylonjs.com/

Which doesn't happen on Edge, IE, Chrome or Opera

[jerome]

I suppose this is how each vendor wants to implement the security in his browser : can the active browser window still read the pointer events (and coordinates) when this one's outside it ?

Although I like Chrome as a Linux user, because it's the fastest browser for WebGL on this platform, I'm not sure that I prefer that it can still access the pointer events when it's outside the window ...

[Gijs]

Never mind, I found the solution after all:

canvas.addEventListener('mousedown', function(event){
    event.target.setCapture();
});

Thanks for your input @jerome

The events are only still received when you keep holding down the mouse button as you move outside the canvas

Edit: apparently it's not a cross-browser thing, so you can't use the snippet above like that