Using Game Controllers for Browser-Based Games

With the recent release of Google Chrome version 22, the Gamepad API is ready for action (no manual adjustment of chrome://flags required).  

Recommended reading:

http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/games/an-introduction-to-the-html5-gamepad-api/

http://buildnewgames.com/console-experience-on-the-web/

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/gamepad/

A great interface to use:

http://github.com/sgraham/gamepad.js

However, due to issues as described in the post:

http://github.com/sgraham/gamepad.js/issues/8

for the time being, it is better to use the patched version of the code posted at: 

http://github.com/inequation/gamepad.js

(a GitHub fork of sgraham's code)

at least until the main branch is updated with these changes.