- From: Rick Byers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:57:18 +0000
- To: public-touchevents@w3.org
RByers has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/touch-events: == standardize initTouchEvent == The WebEvents working group previously decided not to normatively specify `initTouchEvent` because there were differences in implementation and weird extra co-ordinate parameters that made no sense. However, according to an [httparchive search](http://bigqueri.es/t/analyzing-html-css-and-javascript-response-bodies/442) there is a non-trivial amount of usage of this API (1236 of the top 300k websites as of Aug 2014). For example: [https://www.fieldandrurallife.com/](https://www.fieldandrurallife.com/) and [http://www.arccjournals.com/](http://www.arccjournals.com/). In both cases it looks like it's just being used as a form of touch feature detection. However, Chrome UMA data [indicates](https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#V8TouchEvent_InitTouchEvent_Method) that `initTouchEvent` is virtually never called in practice on Chrome. I wonder why? See https://github.com/w3c/touch-events/issues/29
Received on Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:57:20 UTC