- From: Arthur Stolyar <nekr.fabula@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:20:51 +0200
- To: Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org>
- Cc: "public-pointer-events@w3.org" <public-pointer-events@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:21:19 UTC
Primary use case is zooming with touchpad. For now zooming is performed via scrolling (wheel) and looks confusing (and hard to implement right) 2015-12-01 19:20 GMT+02:00 Arthur Stolyar <nekr.fabula@gmail.com>: > Would be great to have touchpad as a separate pointerType or make touchpad > fire touch events, at least on high quality touchpads like on Macbooks and > SurfaceBooks > > 2015-12-01 17:31 GMT+02:00 Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org>: > >> Not exactly pointer events, but the right folks are here I think: >> >> I was surprised to see that the touchpad on my Surfacebook doesn't >> generate 'wheel' events. That's great for scroll performance! >> >> But is there any way for developers to see or influence the touchpad >> scroll behavior? Eg. Bing maps doesn't feel great to me (no way to >> pan/zoom with the touchpad, just bounces around if I try to scroll). >> >> For Chrome I know there are many sites that rely on seeing 'wheel' (or >> 'mousewheel') events, eg. to implement scrolling themselves, or to >> selectively disable/enable scrolling. So we're probably stuck firing >> 'wheel' on touchpads :-( >> >> Rick >> >> >> > > > -- > @nekrtemplar <https://twitter.com/nekrtemplar> > -- @nekrtemplar <https://twitter.com/nekrtemplar>
Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:21:19 UTC