Beth gave a bunch of details of the feature, but I would like to expand a bit on our standards plans, and cross-platform potential of this feature:
(1) We definitely plan to take this proposal to standards > On May 8, 2015, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Rimmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > [I originally posted this to webkit-help, but Benjamin suggested suggested I > post here instead] > > Hi all, > > On Twitter, I was bemoaning the lack of communication re. the recently added > Force Click events to Benjamin Poulain, and he suggested, probably correctly, > that I am out of the loop with respect to WebKit development. There had, he > said, been dicussion of this feature on the mailing lists, bugzilla, and the > recent contributors meeting. > > This therefore, is my attempt to get in the loop on this issue. I was > wondering if anyone could help me find the following: > > Mailing list posts: I have tried searching with the Gmane archive, but have > been unable to find any dicussions on this issue. It doesn't help that Gmane > does not support phrasal searches, meaning I cannot easily search for "force > click", "force touch", "pointer events", etc. Can anyone suggest what words I > should search for, or direct me to the relevant threads? > > Contributors meeting: There was apparently a 1 hour discussion at the > contributor's meeting that lead to the agreement that the Force Click > experiment should be upstreamed. Is there a video or sound recording of this > dicussion available? Is there a set of minutes or other summary available? A > blog post? > > Documentation: Benjamin said the feature has been upstreamed to gather > feedback. Can anyone point me to developer documentation that would assist in > using/testing the feature? Or something like the Surfin' Safari blog posts > that introduced the CSS gradient feature?[1] > > I am also curious about the decision to develop a non-standard feature > instead of implementing Pointer Events? The Point Events spec defines a > "pressure" property on pointer events that seems analagous to the "force" > property introduced by this feature. Why was a proprietary solution pursued > instead of adopting the W3C standard? What does the Force Click events offer > that Pointer Events do not? > > Also, how does the development of this feature relate to the WebKit project's > stated goal of standards compliance? [2]. Is there a plan to standardise this > events with the W3C? Is it wise to name this feature after a marketing term > used by a single contributor organisation? Is it intended that these features > will be interopable with pressure-sensitive hardware other than Apple's Force > Touch trackpad? > > [1] https://www.webkit.org/blog/175/introducing-css-gradients/ > [2] https://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html > > Thanks, > Jon > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
