Re: WebEvents-ISSUE-9: Interaction of touch events and mouse events [Touch Events spec]

I committed this proposal in
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/rev/8624a3d5cbd7

On 04/02/2011 07:09 AM, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> On 03/28/2011 01:22 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote:
>> From my experience on the issue with Qt on Windows 7, this mixing of
>> mouse event and touch event make it impossible to do anything useful
>> with the page.
>>
>> The best solution I had was to discard the mouse event generated by the
>> platform for the touch event. This way the touch and mouse on the same
>> computer work as expected.
>
> I agree. In order to support this technique, I think the Touch Events
> spec should at least specify:
>
> "If the user agent dispatches both touch events and mouse events in
> response to the same user action, then the 'touchstart' event must be
> dispatched before any mouse events for that action."
>
> This allows content to support both mouse and touch events, and switch
> between them dynamically in a clean way. (For example, this would allow
> our own test suite to detect non-touch-aware browsers.) It is also
> compatible with existing implementations. Any objections?

Received on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:48:08 UTC