903609 - Better touch event support for gaia in firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

Long term solution we would like to use pointer events, see bug 822898

For the short term it may be worth while investigating if we can use real touch events. Bug 888305 is a bug that details implementing touch events for content in Firefox.

If we decide to implement support for windows/mac touch events, these resources may help:
 - http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/windows/nsWindow.cpp#6022
 - http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/windows/winrt/MetroInput.cpp

At worst we should clean up our touch shim so it always works. (Sometimes it fails. See: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/tools/extensions/desktop-helper/content/touch-events.js)

Comment 1

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

Another symptom from bug 910627 from Jan, "If you refresh system.gaiamobile.org in your browser after building gaia with DEBUG=1, then touch events don't work nicely anymore. Almost every click / drag is registered as a right click or a long press."

Comment 3

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

Devtools team is essentially taking this bug over now that the code is in the platform, so closing this one out.