Re: [whatwg] Multi-touch events
I'll have much more to say about this in the coming months. dave ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:44 PM, 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 Rowan
[whatwg] Multi-touch events
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 Rowan
Re: [whatwg] Multi-touch events
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/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
