- From: Gregers Gram Rygg <gregersrygg@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:15:29 +0200
- To: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Cc: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>, "public-webevents@w3.org" <public-webevents@w3.org>
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:52 PM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote: > We were planning on moving to a system where gestures were standard on > all browsers regardless of how touch enabled their hardware was. > > The hope is to move to a model where applications subscribe to event > classes and how the user manages to trigger these event classes is > strictly between the user and the user agent. Sounds interesting. Can I find more info somewhere? > In this model what you're asking for is wrong and will not work at > all. It does force us to ruin our attempt at fixing the previous > broken click model which is not friendly to users with accessibility > challenges or disadvantaged devices. > > So again, this is the wrong path. I understand your arguments. Unfortunately that will break many existing webapps, but I guess that's the cost of playing with non-standards. Any suggestions on how else we can detect if it's a touch device or not? I've tried to suggest it as a CSS media query, but to no avail. This is the last I heard: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010May/0411.html Gregers
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