Re: Last Call comments

I do not insist on the importance of the two-mice case.
I just can't understand why we keep such a restriction if we can just omit it.

08.04.2013, 17:07, "Sangwhan Moon" <sangwhan@iki.fi>:
> On Monday, April 8, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Sergey Konstantinov wrote:
>
>> šit makes it impossible to use two mouse devices > simultaneously.
>
> Do note that as it stands, it's quite unlikely anyone is going to implement multiple mice support.
>
> (If anyone in the group plans to, it would be interesting to hear about this though)
>
> Which is why it is probably considered "good enough", as realistically implementing
> this requires vast changes on how browsers handle mouse input (it needs to read
> the input from a lower level), and as it stands almost all cross platform browsers
> receive mouse events from a higher layer than what is needed to implement this.
>
> Being able to do multiple mice on most current desktop operating systems will
> quite possibly require directly accessing the devices via USB HID or the lot.
>
> (Now imagine doing this implementation for every OS you need to support...)
>
> Not saying pointerID == 1 makes a whole lot of sense, since as the spec stands
> (pointerID == 1) and (pointerType == POINTER_TYPE_MOUSE) mean the same thing,
> but the former being less obvious unless you read the spec.
>
> Cheers,
> Sangwhan

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Received on Monday, 8 April 2013 13:27:32 UTC