- From: Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:47:35 -0700
- To: Benjamin Poulain <benjamin.poulain@nokia.com>
- CC: Web Events Working Group WG <public-webevents@w3.org>
I committed this proposal in http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/rev/8624a3d5cbd7 On 04/02/2011 07:09 AM, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On 03/28/2011 01:22 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: >> From my experience on the issue with Qt on Windows 7, this mixing of >> mouse event and touch event make it impossible to do anything useful >> with the page. >> >> The best solution I had was to discard the mouse event generated by the >> platform for the touch event. This way the touch and mouse on the same >> computer work as expected. > > I agree. In order to support this technique, I think the Touch Events > spec should at least specify: > > "If the user agent dispatches both touch events and mouse events in > response to the same user action, then the 'touchstart' event must be > dispatched before any mouse events for that action." > > This allows content to support both mouse and touch events, and switch > between them dynamically in a clean way. (For example, this would allow > our own test suite to detect non-touch-aware browsers.) It is also > compatible with existing implementations. Any objections?
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