Landscape

NOTE: the Web Events Working Group closed in November 2013 because it completed its technical work with the publication of the 10 October 2013 Touch Events Recommendation. As such, this document is NO longer maintained.

There is quite a lot of prior art and background work on the topics of touch-interface events and intentional/representational events. This page provides some of the background of the work on these topics.

Resources

• Touch Gesture Reference Guide; by Luke Wroblewski;

Touch Interface

• Mozilla Touch Interfaces:
  • Touch Events; general information
  • Touch Interface
  • TouchList Interface
  • TouchEvent Interface
• JQuery Mobile Touch Events
• QuirksMode: Browser advisory paper - touch actions
• QuirksMode: Touch Table
• Back To The Code: JavaScript Touch and Gesture Events iPhone and Android
• Touch events - MDC - documents Mozilla's experimental MozTouchDown/MozTouchMove/MozTouchUp DOM events.
• Touch and Gesture Events; email by Olli Pettay to www-dom on 17-June-2009
• discussion of differences between WebKit touch events and Gecko MozTouch events, including capture and multiplexing.
• Apple's TouchEvent Class Reference; Safari Developer Library

High-Level Events

• Nokia Starlight Touch Documentation - documents WebKit touch events and proposed manipulate/transform events, including a specific mapping from low-level to high-level events implemented for Qt / WebKit on Windows 7.
• nsIDOMSimpleGestureEvent (Mozilla) - defines events for magnify, rotate, multi-finger tap, and swipe. (Some of these are high-level "representational" events; others are mid-level "gestural" events.)

Specifications

• Intent Based Events; W3C's Forms WG
• User Interface Independence for Accessible Rich Internet Applications; by Apple's James Craig and Chris Fleizach
• Transform Action Event Interface; by Nokia's Ilkka Oksanen and Cathy Chan

Gestures

• GISpL: Gestural Interface Specification Language; IETF Informatin Draft by F. Echtler, Munich Univ. of Applied Sciences; March 7 2011
• Synaptics "Scrybe" Gestures
• Apple's GestureEvent Class Reference; Safari Developer Library