Re: Call for participation: Online meeting on Gesture Events Standard in Web

On 22/05/2018 10:03, 刘大鹏(鹏成) wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> 
> We are planning to organize an online meeting to discuss the proposal of 
> Gesture Events in Web in the MERGING OF WEB AND MOBILE APP COMMUNITY 
> GROUP[1].
> 
> If you have interest to join the discussion, please provide your 
> feedback of your available time on doodle: 
> https://doodle.com/poll/8acwbp9598uifqgi

Could you indicate what timezone the times are in? EST? UTC?

> 
>       Introduction of native app gesture and /Gesture Events/ in web
> 
> Smartphone OS normally have Touch and Gesture as a way to interact with 
> users.
> 
> Touch function is used to capture the information of touch events （e.g. 
> the position of the touch point etc.）happening on the screen.
> 
> Gesture function is used to specify users’ more complex interactive 
> operation with screen, such as pinching, rotating, swiping, 
> double-tapping and so on.
> 
> Although Touch is supported by many platforms and the touch events model 
> has been defined in the W3C Touch Events specification [2], Gesture are 
> not widely supported currently.

Not forgetting about W3C Pointer Events https://w3c.github.io/pointerevents/

> Nowadays, gesture events are widely used in web. However, web developers 
> can only use Touch Events to implement gesture functionalities. They may 
> have to develop multiple versions of gesture events in order to adapt 
> different browsers due to the lack of gesture events standard in web. 
> Thus, web developers always choose to implement the gesture events by 
> importing external toolkits when they start a new web project.The 
> development effort of gesture functions for every single browser and 
> learning cost for different API and parameters of toolkits result in low 
> efficiency.
> 
> To solve this issue, we propose to define a Gesture Events standard in 
> W3C, the benefits are:

I'll also note that standardisation of high-level gesture events may hit 
some IPR issues for certain companies (at least that has been my 
experience in the past when broaching the subject).

P
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