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These are IIRC the original controls. You could enable mouselook by using the console, but it is not implemented in this port.

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The port intentionally does not support mouse control because that is full of vendor-prefixes. See the bottom of the page.

I still don't understand his logic for this: Element fullscreen is not going to be added because there's already browser-wide F11 fullscreen.

If pointer-lock only works in element-fullscreen in Firefox (on which he develops) then what other choice is there ? Nobody plays shooters with the keyboard since wolf3d, and the BananaBread demo does pointer-lock precisely via element-fullscreen.

Chrome supports mouse lock without fullscreen since v21. However, I get illegal invocation error.

I added mouse support for Chrome.

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