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On 1/30/07, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Rowan Nairn wrote: > > Hi, I'm new to the list so I'm not sure if this is beyond scope or not > but has anybody thought about what kind of mouse events we would like to > get, say the iPhone (or similar) passes all the touches on to the DOM? > > I'm thinking the minimal helpful API change would be a new field for the > Event object that uniquely identifies a "pointing device" for the > duration of a mousedown-mousemove-mouseup cycle. > > Any thoughts? Some more of mine here: > http://eurekaman.com/towards-multi-touch-in-the-browser An interesting point. I recommend bringing this up with the WebAPI working group, who are working on mouse events and the DOM events model in general. http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/
