Re: IE11 reporting incorrect scale for touch width/height

Yep, I'm very familiar with all those places geometry can get confused - we
fixed multiple issues in Chrome on Android and ChromeOS :-).

Thanks for looking into it!
   Rick


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Jacob Rossi <Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com>wrote:

>  There is some variance from device to device as digitizer manufacturers
> haven’t standardized on the sensitivity level for this metric.  Touch
> geometry is also not currently a part of the Windows Hardware Certification
> Kit [1]. But I wouldn’t expect values that small.
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> I’m looking into whether we do have a scaling problem in IE.  Digitizer
> resolutions don’t necessarily match the screen resolutions. So it’s
> possible there’s an issue there. There’s also DPI scaling to account for as
> well.  Also keep in mind that there is no such thing as a physical unit in
> CSS and browsers optimize scaling  for consistent apparent visual size, not
> consistent physical size. I was under the impression we validated all this
> for width/height when we updated IE11, but I’ll double check.
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> I wouldn’t be too concerned about sites compensating for IE. Geometry
> hasn’t been used much in the wild yet and there are Windows devices that do
> report appropriately sized widths and heights. I don’t believe there’s a
> consistent offset or anything that a site might compensate for.
>
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> I’ll report back with what I find.
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> -Jacob
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> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj124227.aspx
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> *From:* Rick Byers [mailto:rbyers@google.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 17, 2014 1:11 PM
> *To:* Jacob Rossi; Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh (MS OPEN TECH)
> *Cc:* public-pointer-events@w3.org
> *Subject:* IE11 reporting incorrect scale for touch width/height
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On IE11 on my SurfaceRT, the reported width and height values seem way too
> small to be correct in terms of CSS pixels (as specified by the standard
> and MSDN document).  Eg. with  http://www.rbyers.net/eventTest.html I
> typically see values of width/height=1, but with a really fat finger I can
> get values up to 5.
>
>
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> Is this just a bug in IE or the Surface?  Are any other devices known to
> properly support touch dimensions with pointer events?  Any known web sites
> that use this information?
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> I ask because I'm a little nervous to have Polymer+Chrome accurately
> report width/height values if there are sites already compensating for the
> scale in IE not matching the documentation.
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> Thanks,
>
>    Rick
>