- From: Rick Byers <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:57:19 -0700
- To: w3c/touch-events <touch-events@noreply.github.com>
Received on Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:58:13 UTC
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? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/touch-events/issues/29
Received on Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:58:13 UTC