718390 - Touch events don't get forwarded to the web page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 603008

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Wladimir Palant]

Attachment: Testcase

I've noticed that some mobile games work fine on Fennec Beta (Firefox 10 build 20120104) but not on Aurora (Firefox 11.0a2 build 20120115) or Nightly (Firefox 12.0a1 build 20120115). It seems that touch events simply aren't being forwarded to the web page any more. Steps to reproduce:

* Open the attached web page in Fennec.
* Touch anywhere on the page.

Expected result:

A message saying "touch" opens (in Firefox 10).

Actual result:

Nothing happens, the page doesn't receive the event (in Firefox 11/12, tested on Samsung Galaxy S II)

Comment 2

[Wladimir Palant]

Mark, are you sure it's a duplicate? I've seen that bug but it appears to be a platform issue - the platform simply doesn't support multitouch. Here we have something however that used to work (singletouch I guess?) but broke with the move to the native UI.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Wladimir Palant from comment #2)
> Mark, are you sure it's a duplicate? I've seen that bug but it appears to be
> a platform issue - the platform simply doesn't support multitouch. Here we
> have something however that used to work (singletouch I guess?) but broke
> with the move to the native UI.

I am mostly certain that the code in bug 603008 is needed to un-break the single-touch behavior in the new native UI as well.

Comment 4

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Required is a bit of a stretch. We could potentially forward all touches to content using the message passing system and then forward the single touch (or even multi touch) to content. That's similar to what we did on XUL Fennec.

But at this point, 603008 will take less time to fix (I think its done) than to do that (and to make the dispatching somewhat match the touch events spec).