PFWG comments on Touch Events

Below are comments from the Protocols and Formats Working Group on the
27 October 2011 Touch Events Last Call Working Draft
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-touch-events-20111027/. Apologies they are
a little late, it takes us a while to get group discussion together.
Approval to send these as PFWG comments is archived at
https://www.w3.org/2011/11/30-pf-minutes.html#item13.

We have no new comments, but wanted to provide a disposition on our
previously submitted comments that the PF working group submitted for
the 13 September version of the specification.

> 1) If a Web application can deal with touch events, it can intercept
> them, and the idea is that in this case no corresponding mouse events
> will be dispatched. However, if the Web application is not
> specifically written for touch input devices, it can react to the
> subsequent mouse events instead. This can be a powerful paradigm, but
> it is not fully described in this spec. The relation between touch
> events and mouse events should be explained in more detail for authors
> who want to achieve device independence.  There is a general need for
> a "primer" document in the W3C space explaining the various DOM events
> and how they relate to each other, also providing best practices of
> device-specific and device-independent authoring.

For Section 7 of the document we propose the following text is inserted
into the first paragraph before the last sentence:

If a Web application can process touch events, it can intercept them,
and no corresponding mouse events would need to be dispatched by the
user agent. If the Web application is not specifically written for touch
input devices, it can react to the subsequent mouse events instead.

> 2) Minor editorial issues with the spec:
>
> - Section 3.1: For each of the attributes, the unit should be
> mentioned (device pixels, CSS pixels, etc.)
>
> - Section 7: The "preventDefault" method should be explained or listed
> in the glossary.

The updates that have been made are sufficient to address these
editorial comments. 

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Michael Cooper
Web Accessibility Specialist
World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative
E-mail cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>
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