Re: Introductions

Welcome Jacob and Asir!  I'm thrilled that we can extend our productive
relationship from the pointer events WG into this CG as well!

I'm sorry I haven't been active recently in driving the pointer/touch
interoperability discussions.   Once we've shipped touch-action in Chromium
(targeting Chrome 35), I hope to use an extension to host the polymer
pointer events polyfill and start testing site compatibility in the
presence of both touch and pointer events.  Even better, we should have
some concrete data on this front from Mozilla soon too.  Then I think it'll
be much easier to make progress with concrete compatibility data and
real-world test cases.  In the interim I have some initial thoughts her [1]
- I appreciate any comments (either in the doc or on this list).

I'm looking forward to hearing whatever data you can share from your
investigations at Microsoft.  From our previous discussions, I suspect that
you've still done more research in this space than any of us who are
actually supporting touch events.

Rick

[1]
https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1Sasl1qYJV6agrDvGplEYlZznzc38U-TFN_3a67-nlSc/edit#


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Jacob Rossi <Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com>wrote:

>  Hi Touch Event CG Folks!
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> I’m pleased to introduce myself and Asir as new members to the Touch
> Events Community Group.
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> We’re excited to see the progress being made towards support for
> interoperable Pointer Events. We recognize that figuring out the details
> regarding interactions between Touch Events and Pointer Events is a key
> step in that evolution. It also could have an impact on easing the
> transition for web developers. To that end, Microsoft intends to offer its
> support in working towards a consensus approach.
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> Nothing has changed with respect to our position on the Touch Events API
> itself. We continue to believe Pointer Events is necessary to support
> today’s diverse device ecosystem and is key to Internet Explorer customers
> who enjoy touch, mouse, pen, and Kinect input modalities on the web. But
> we’re cognizant of Touch Event usage on the web, and we want to be a part
> of helping rationalize the two models as best possible.
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> Looking forward to discussion in this area.
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> -Jacob & Asir
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