488715 - [meta] Windows 7 Touch/Pen Input Support Tracking Bug

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Widget win32 seemed the best fit. Splitting these off from the win7 support tracking bug so I can better keep track of them.

Comment 1

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

About the only thing we didn't get for 1.9.2 so far is bug 488717 - smarter form of toggle zoom. (We still have time.) Other than that, looks like all dependent bugs here marked as resolved fixed landed on 1.9.2.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

What about the "flick" feature that IE has? Is there any way that feature could be implemented in the future?

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Just talked to Marcia and Juan - Marcia was referring to bug 511236 which will likely NOT be fixed for 1.9.2

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> What about the "flick" feature that IE has? Is there any way that feature could
> be implemented in the future?

It's implemented by default through windows - if these events fall through our windows procedure they are translated to app commands which we support. So flick down is a page down, flick left is back, etc.. Bug 485016 relates to handling these flicks events internally and sending them out as moz events so we can do custom things with them. Bug 511236 relates to improving the way we handle the back and forth. 485016 should probably block 511236. These are enhancements only, functionality wise flicks work.

Comment 5

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

The biggest loss out of all of these is bug 478029, but that's hung up on IME issues. Without TSF enabled by default, the on-page touch keyboard doesn't come up automatically when you select a text entry. Enabling TSF turns this on, and if you have a tablet, I'd suggest you enable it, it makes surfing much simpler.

Comment 6

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

For the zooming feature we might need to think what kind of smart zoom we want. Do we really want some zoom to element? In that case we can probably use some of the code from Fennec, but I'm not sure if it makes sense in a big window.  One good improvement towards smart zoom would be just to fix the behavior of keeping the page position when zooming using two fingers (we don't use the center of zoom gesture).