Most websites do not explicitly need touch events, but only mouse events (with the compatibility mouse events). So in the same vein, perhaps document.disableTouchEvents should be added. ☆*PhistucK* On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: > 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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