Chromium will support MS pointer events

[sinetheo]

Google and Apple held the W3C pointer events hostage in favor of its own webkit api for seperate mouse vs touch events for the past few years.

 

MS hosted a meeting with beer at a bar between the Chromium and IE teams to finalize support. Google decided to change course. News is here

 

 http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/chromium-team-reverses-course-will-adopt-ies-merged-mouse-touch-apis/

 

Firefox has been on board for awhile and it is just Apple now holding it hostage with Safari and IOS support with the older -webkit way.

 

 

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Posted last night in Meet Chrome Next, also tipped about it for Front.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Good news, the way touch events were implemented were dumb, and caused compatibility issues (Firefox had to disable support for them, since some sites were reading the presence of touch support as meaning it was Safari on iOS, and turning off mouse events), the only people still pushing for them were Apple, and Google were following suite because they didn't want to break compatibility for iOS sites.

[sinetheo]

Good news, the way touch events were implemented were dumb, and caused compatibility issues (Firefox had to disable support for them, since some sites were reading the presence of touch support as meaning it was Safari on iOS, and turning off mouse events), the only people still pushing for them were Apple, and Google were following suite because they didn't want to break compatibility for iOS sites.

Webkit is the new IE 6 of this decade

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yep, Apple really has no interest in web standards, or standards compliance (They created the original spec for Transforms and Transitions, yet they still don't have a stable implementation of them), they treat WebKit more as a platform for their products (Similar to the way Microsoft saw IE6), than an actual web browser.