- From: Chris Mills <cmills@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:28:19 +0000
- To: "Rob Dolin (MS OPEN TECH)" <robdolin@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>, "Doug Schepers (schepers@w3.org)" <schepers@w3.org>
That's looking great Rob - thanks so much for your contribution. I'm on vacation next week, so you'll have to wait a little while for me to give you more detailed feedback. Does anyone else fancy giving Rob's article a tech review in my absence? Chris Mills Opera Software, dev.opera.com W3C Fellow, web education and webplatform.org Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://goo.gl/AKf9M) On 15 Feb 2013, at 21:22, "Rob Dolin (MS OPEN TECH)" <robdolin@microsoft.com> wrote: > Thanks very much Chris. :) > > I appreciate your advice and have started publishing as a "concept" at: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/concepts/PointerEvents. > > 'All the best-- > --Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Mills [mailto:cmills@w3.org] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 2:34 AM > To: Rob Dolin (MS OPEN TECH) > Cc: public-webplatform@w3.org; Doug Schepers (schepers@w3.org) > Subject: Re: Recommendation for where to post Pointer Events primer > > Hi Rob! Welcome to the list ;-) > > From your outline, it looks like it's gonna be a kind of extended concept example, rather than a tutorial (unless of course, you're gonna get the reader to build the code themselves step by step, in which case it would be a tutorial.) > > So I would create it a concept - we decided a little while ago that there was no point having concepts AND guides, as they do basically the same thing. And we liked concepts better. > > Create it as something like "pointer events fundamentals" or "pointer events explained" using the concepts form field. > > Eventually, we should create an "API learning material" topic at http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis, and link to your pointer events concept article from there. > > Hope this helps. > > Chris Mills > Opera Software, dev.opera.com > W3C Fellow, web education and webplatform.org Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://goo.gl/AKf9M) > > On 14 Feb 2013, at 23:41, "Rob Dolin (MS OPEN TECH)" <robdolin@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> My name is Rob Dolin and this is my first post to the list. I've been drafting a "Primer" doc for Pointer Events [1] and Doug (CC'd) suggested I pose this question to the mailing list: >> >> I was looking at the New Page Form [2] and I'm wondering if I >> should post the Pointer Events Primer as a "Guide" or as a "Tutorial." >> (Below is an outline of the content I'm in the process of writing.) >> >> Thanks very much- >> --Rob >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/ >> [2] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:New_Page >> >> Pointer Events Primer (Outline) >> 1 Goals >> 2 Why Pointer Events >> 2.1 Unified model for Multiple input types >> 2.2 Ability to Identify Different Input Types >> 2.3 Additional Methods and Attributes >> 3 Basic Pointer Events >> 3.1 Down and Up (with example) >> 3.2 Move (with example) >> 3.3 Over and Out (with example) >> 3.4 Enter and Leave (with example) >> 3.5 Cancel >> 3.6 Comparison of Mouse Events and Pointer Events >> 4 Pointer Event Attributes >> 4.1 PointerType >> 4.2 PointerId >> 4.3 IsPrimary >> 4.4 Contact Geometry Width and Heigh >> 4.5 Pressur >> 4.6 Pen TiltX and TiltY >> 5 Multiple Pointers At Once / Multi-Touch (with example) >> 6 Detecting Which Button(s) Are Pressed >> 7 Try Pointer Events Today with Early Implementations >> 7.1 WebKit with Pointer Events Patch >> 7.2 Internet Explorer 10 >> 8 Further Reading >> 9 Appendix A: Designing for Touch >> 10 Appendix B: Pointer Capture >> 10.1 Slider Control Example >> 10.2 SetPointerCapture method and GotPointerCapture event >> 10.3 ReleasePointerCapture method and LostPointerCapture event >> >> >> >> Rob Dolin >> Senior Program Manager and Technical Diplomat Microsoft Open >> Technologies, Inc. >> A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation >> > > > > >
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