Re: [Touch events] identifiedTouch (was: createTouchList should probably take a sequence, not an IDL array)

On 1/4/13 3:21 PM, ext Rick Byers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:19 PM, <Cathy.Chan@nokia.com 
> <mailto:Cathy.Chan@nokia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Along a somewhat similar vein (of v1 goal being documenting existing
>     implementations), how do we plan to resolve the issue with
>     TouchList.identifiedTouch()? As a reminder, the identifiedTouch()
>     method is
>     implemented in Firefox and Opera but not in WebKit. Should we, for
>     example,
>     consider making the method optional?
>
>
> Also as another reminder: I agreed to implement this is WebKit, but we 
> realized this would have no effect on iOS (since their touch support 
> is in a private fork, as far as I can tell) so it's not sufficient to 
> satisfy our goal of the spec defining interoperability.  Perhaps we 
> should just remove it from v1 (and leave it in TEv2) if we're changing 
> the spec anyway?

Making features "optional" creates other problems (e.g. interop). As 
such, I tend to agree with Rick that removing identifiedTouch() from v1 
is a reasonable solution. However, I would like to hear from others, at 
least:

* Gecko/Mozilla; Matt, Olli,  Boris?

* Opera: Sangwhan?

(What we spec or don't spec re identifiedTouch for v2 is a separate 
question  ...)

-Thanks, AB

Received on Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:32:06 UTC