Re: Next steps for Web Events WG

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> First, congratulations to the group on today's publication of the Proposed
> Recommendation of the Touch Events v1 spec <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-*
> *touch-events-20130509/<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-touch-events-20130509/>>.
> This is a real nice milestone to make!
>
> Regarding the next steps for this group ...
>
> * Touch Events v1 - the next step to get v1 to Recommendation is to wait
> until the Web IDL reference is a Proposed Recommendation or to write
> webidlharness tests that prove two or more implementations implement all of
> the spec's IDL. I'm not entirely sure what this latter approach means in
> practice so perhaps Doug can clarify the minimal amount of webidlharness
> testing that is required.
>
> * Touch Events v2 - in October 2012 we agreed to publish TE v2 as a WG
> Note to signal that work on this spec has stopped <
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**Public/public-webevents/**
> 2012OctDec/0009.html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webevents/2012OctDec/0009.html>>.
> So unless I hear otherwise, I assume this is still the Plan of Record.


Agreed.


> Before we proceed with that WG Not publication, can someone please compare
> v1 and v2 and make a proposal regarding what (if any) changes in v1 we want
> to merge to the the v2 spec?
>
> * Touch Events to Pointer Events mapping - our Plan of Record includes
> creating some type of Touch Events to/from Pointer Events mapping document
> (see <https://www.w3.org/2010/**webevents/track/actions/101<https://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/track/actions/101>>).
> I presume we still want to do this and as Rick indicated in <
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**Public/public-webevents/**
> 2013JanMar/0059.html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webevents/2013JanMar/0059.html>>,
> that doc needs to block on implementation and deployment data, in
> particular having a single UA that implements both specs. Presumably, we
> should have sufficient data to write that doc by August.
>

Agreed, and I hope that we'll have experimental support in Chrome by August
(the MS guys and I expect to have an update for the group soon).


> Comments regarding the above are welcome, as are any other Big Ticket
> Items we still need to address.
>
> -Thanks, Art
>
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