- From: SULLIVAN, BRYAN L (ATTCINW) <BS3131@att.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:15:27 -0800
- To: "Charles Pritchard" <chuck@jumis.com>, <public-webapps@w3.org>
This might be better discussed by the DAP group, as it's clearly a "device API" topic. Also it would be interesting to hear from Apple and Wacom (without unnecessary details at this point), what areas of touch interface capabilities would be problematic for W3C to create API's for, from an IPR perspective (i.e. that would probably result in exclusions)... this concern is driven e.g. by the current touch-related issue between Apple and HTC. Thanks, Bryan Sullivan | AT&T -----Original Message----- From: public-webapps-request@w3.org [mailto:public-webapps-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Charles Pritchard Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:18 PM To: public-webapps@w3.org Subject: Event handlers - Pointer Devices 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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