- From: Konstantinov Sergey <twirl@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:26:57 +0400
- To: Sangwhan Moon <sangwhan@iki.fi>
- Cc: "public-pointer-events@w3.org" <public-pointer-events@w3.org>
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 -- Konstantinov Sergey Yandex Maps API Development Team Lead http://api.yandex.com/maps/
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