Known Issues

1. Not works in all web pages
2. Linux and Mac support
3. The target element in `finevt`

Not works in all web pages

Mouse Stroke, like all other extensions of Google Chrome, doesn't work in all pages. At the time of writing, extensions work in http://, https://, ftp:// and file:// protocols, this is Google's design.

I know some custom builds like ChromePlus can do mouse gesture in all web pages, they have modified Chrome's code to achieve that. However, Mouse Stroke is an extension of the official Google Chrome, it's not a custom build.

Linux and Mac support

Chrome behaves differently under Linux, Mac and Windows. There are several issues on this topic in Chrome's bug tracker.

Since version 1.8, Linux is supported with some limitations:

1. Only the middle mouse button can be used as the stroke trigger
2. Rocker stroke and mouse wheel stroke are not available

I don't have a Mac, so I don't know if this version works on Mac or not. If you have a Mac to test it, please report the result here.

Things are not perfect for Windows users either. On Windows, you can only use the right mouse button as the stroke trigger. The middle mouse button should work when this WebKit bug is fixed.

The target element in finevt

The canvas tag is used to draw trails, it covers the whole page when trails are displayed, and then be hided after the user releases the mouse key. The finevt.target is retrieved on mouse key up event, so finevt.target will always be the canvas element itself.