[whatwg] Multi-touch events

[David Hyatt]

I'll have much more to say about this in the coming months.

dave
(hyatt at apple.com)

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