26
Aug
JavaScript events in MobileSafari
PPK on the event handling in Mobile Safari:
They have to redesign the triggers for these events in terms that make sense to their interface, even if that means that the event names don’t make sense any more. — Peter-Paul Koch
I’m excited by what PPK sees as the decline of heavy mouse-based interaction on the web. But it sounds like the mapping of events such as :focus onto ‘finger down’ events is going to get very confusing (linguistically speaking) long before any new standard for event handling on the web is formulated to take into account the new touchscreen devices.