- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:38:28 -0400
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>, www-dom@w3.org
Hi, Jonas- Jonas Sicking wrote (on 10/21/10 7:09 PM): > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Doug Schepers<schepers@w3.org> wrote: >> * mobile Web wasn't really here yet, and Web developers were focused only on >> the traditional desktop WIMP > > I assume that you are referring to the fact that mobile introduced > activate-through-touch here? > > However click vs. activate was an issue long before mobile or touch. > As long as the web platform has existed we've had > activate-through-keyboard as well as activate-through-mouse. > > So I don't think the above was a contributor. No, I'm saying that when DOMActivate was first specced, in 1999-2000, there wasn't a clean mobile-web model or significant use of inputs other than keyboard and mouse, so click seemed to serve content authors just as well as DOMActivate... they didn't need to think as much about an abstraction that covered keyboard, mouse, touch inputs, voice, and whatever, equally well. That dynamic has since shifted, and there is more need for an activation event... just not necessarily DOMActivate, because of the other problems with it. Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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