On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 2014-09-11, 5:54 PM, smaug wrote: > >> If we just needs new coordinates, couldn't we extend the existing event > interfaces with some new properties? > > > > Yeah, this seems like the way to go to me as well. > > Do we currently dispatch pointer events on desktop when the user > places a finger on a laptop touchpad? Or do we just dispatch events > when the user then moves the finger and thus move the on-screen > "pointer"? > I'm not sure about our implementation, but if I'm reading the spec correctly, we should be firing an event when you place your first finger on the touchpad. > If we only dispatch events to indicate pointer movement, then I don't > think simply extending existing interfaces will be possible. > > Similarly, what happens if you touch multiple fingers to the touchpad? > Do we fire events as the second and third finger is placed on the > touchpad? If not, we similarly need additional events to be fired. > Again, if I'm reading the spec correctly, we should be firing multiple events in that case. -- Ehsan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
