- From: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:22:29 -0000
- To: www-dom@w3.org
The spec says touchmove event is cancellable, but implementations have a quirk the spec doesn't mention: only the first touchmove event can be cancelled: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653009 From a developer point of view this is a terrible misfeature I'd rather see removed. One touchmove event is not enough to reliably detect velocity and direction of finger movement, so it's very problematic when I want to allow vertical page scrolling and prevent scrolling on horizontal swipe gesture. OTOH if it has to stay for web compatibility, then I'd rather see it documented to warn developers against it (that behavior looks like a bug/race condition in the code when sometimes scrolling works and sometimes doesn't). I've also noticed that TouchEvent.cancellable property is always true, even in later touchmove events that effectively cannot be cancelled. Should event.cancellable property vary per event to reflect that? -- regards, Kornel
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