Re: [DOM3Events] Identifying mouse events derived from touch events

On 01/22/2015 06:09 AM, Rick Byers wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl <mailto:annevk@annevk.nl>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org <mailto:rbyers@chromium.org>> wrote:
>     > Is my earlier proposal (a single "derivedFromTouchEvent" bool on Mouse
>     > events) preferable in your opinion?  Or does it just suffer from the exact
>     > same problem?
>
>     I think that might be better as it is more scoped. Since we don't
>     really understand this space much from a theoretical perspective I
>     would be hesitant to add generic APIs.
>
>
> Understood, thanks.  Jacob, you are the strongest proponent for the 'firedFrom' model over the 'derivedFromTouchEvent' one.  Any thoughts?
>
> Here's a 3rd option we haven't discussed in detail yet:
>
> What if input events all had a 'sourceDevice' attribute which returned an object with an attribute like 'firesTouchEvents'.

In Gecko MouseEvents have the non-standard 'readonly attribute unsigned short mozInputSource;'
and the value can be MOZ_SOURCE_UNKNOWN, MOZ_SOURCE_MOUSE, MOZ_SOURCE_PEN etc.

enum InputEventSource {
   "",
   "touch",
   "mouse"
   "pen",
   "keyboard" // for 'enter' key event triggering 'click'
};
readonly attribute InputEventSource inputSource;



might work pretty well.

I wouldn't add derivedFromTouchEvent. That makes the APIs depend on each others too much, and given we probably want to expose
different derivedFrom values too, it would easily become very ugly.



-Olli

>  I've argued that the
> problem here is NOT one of source device but of related events, but if the source device says explicitly what event types it fires and developers test
> that (rather than inferring it from some "device class") then that's just as good.
>
> In the pointer events working group we had other reasons to want an input device API (eg. 'navigator' is really a poor place for 'maxTouchPoints').
> Perhaps this is as good as a reason as any to start exposing an input device properties object.  I wouldn't argue here for hanging a bunch of extra
> stuff of it, but it's reasonable to think that over time we'll want an API surface like this.  Most other platforms have such a facility (eg.
> MotionEvent.getDevice <http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/InputEvent.html#getDevice()>() on Android).
>
>     As your document suggests it is unclear what to include. Which also
>     suggests it does not fall out automatically from some underlying
>     primitive. Rather, we do this in various places as localized hacks and
>     there is probably not a generic framework that encompasses them well.
>
>
> Yes, I agree this is a good legitimate argument against this design.
>
>     > That said, if this group is interested in trying to spec this out in detail,
>     > I'm happy to help from the chromium side (explaining our implementation,
>     > trying to tweak it to align with the model you all agree on, etc.).
>
>     I've been trying to get the people defining UI Events to do this for a
>     while now without much success.
>
>
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>

Received on Thursday, 22 January 2015 12:34:53 UTC