Re: Last Call comments

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Konstantinov Sergey
<twirl@yandex-team.ru>wrote:

> 10.04.2013, 15:52, "Scott González" <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Konstantinov Sergey <
> twirl@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> >> Whether you map Touch Events to Pointer or Pointer to Touch, or event
> if you write code for PointerEvents alone - you have to count the pointers,
> to separate single-input from multi-input and to obtain the positions
> pointers. I could hardly imagine the application which need to work with
> pointers and doesn't need to do such things.
> >
> > In my opinion, this is a non-issue. We've already agreed to add an API
> for getting the full list of active pointers in v2. I'm sure I could write
> this in less than 55 LOC with v1. See Rick's email from yesterday [1],
> which mentions an easy way to create "frames".
> >
>
> Then I don't understand why to accept this v1 specifiation if it is (a)
> incomplete, (b) will be modified breaking back compatibility.
>

We're not going to wait until we think a specification solves 100% of all
problems before publishing. We need to be able to iterate. Otherwise, way
too much time will pass before this is published.

Who said anything about breaking back compatibility? What suggested change
is a breaking change?

>
> >> So these 55 lines of code (usually more - you usually need to dispatch
> the event streams because generally working with single-input and working
> with multi-input are completely different tasks which are solved by
> different modules) is an additional problem that PointerEvents add to
> developer because the spec doesn't bother about basic developer needs.
> >
> > It seems like you feel that gestures are a basic need that should be
> directly addressed by Pointer Events. Is that the case?
> >
>
> Just the opposite. Our Safari Mobile code use the touch* events only. We
> don't need gestures (i.e. specific events to detect gestures) because we
> just need the positions of every touch. That's one of the most useful
> features of Safari Mobile touch event system in my opinion.
>
> But we failed to use the same approach in our IE10-specific code because
> it's very hard to use pointers without gestures. That's why I don't like
> the idea of discussing PointerEvents proposal alone leaving the gestures
> out of scope.
>

The framing will be completely arbitrary for different devices. What's
wrong with the suggested approach of using requestAnimationFrame()?