- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:50:20 +0000
- To: PhistucK <phistuck@gmail.com>
- CC: Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org>, Arthur Stolyar <nekr.fabula@gmail.com>, "public-touchevents@w3.org" <public-touchevents@w3.org>, Matt Gaunt <mattgaunt@chromium.org>, input-dev <input-dev@chromium.org>
On 16/01/2015 16:46, PhistucK wrote: > These compatibility events can be considered as the 'legacy Pointer > Events'. You can rely on them instead of registering events for every > pointer inputs. Problem is that the compat mouse events are not equivalent. For instance, you cannot track finger movements by using mousemove compat events, as moving the the finger on the touchscreen simply will not generate them. > The short term way of improving this would be to add a property on > compatibility mouse events that regards them as simulated This is being discussed separately, but yes. > and the long > term of improving this would be Pointer Events. As Google and Apple have indicated that they will not be implementing PE...this discussion is about improving touch events for now. I agree that PE are the way forward though for these scenarios. P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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