- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:02:27 -0500
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Hi, Charles- Indeed, there has already been some concrete discussion on this, and we plan to take up work on such a specification in the next couple of months. It's been explicitly included in our draft rechartering [1]. [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/webapps/charter/#aide Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs Charles Pritchard wrote (on 3/2/10 8:17 PM): > This is a re-post from the WHATWG mailing list. > > They've suggested I take the discussion to this list, as > pointer events have not yet been formalized. > > .... > > I'd like to know if there's room or any work has been done to set aside a > standard for an extended set of pointer-device events. > > With touch screens and touch sensitivity becoming quite main-stream, > I'd like to see this popular functionality supported by the HTML 5 > standard. > > We see, in the iPhone, an ontouchstart and ongesturestart, and company. > Gesture is a nice way of saying multiple inputs, and it works well. > > While many people would like to wrap the ontouch events into onmouse > events -- they do have some different semantics. And, I believe > that ontouch would be a good place to add in pressure sensitivity indexes. > > So, I thought I'd solicit feedback here. > > I'd like a common API to support touch screens > and pressure/angle sensitive touch devices. > > I believe that both Apple and Wacom have thrown their hats into the > ring, and we can easily integrate their achievements. > > > -Charles >
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