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If it becomes a standard I guess they will reconsider their choice. We are in a weird era where HTML5/web apis kind of succeeded ,making plugins almost obsolet

by aikah 12y ago

If it becomes a standard I guess they will reconsider their choice. We are in a weird era where HTML5/web apis kind of succeeded ,making plugins almost obsolete, yet i'm still not sure 5/10 years from now,vendors will still be on that same line.The temptation of implementing proprietary APIs is still huge. Touch events for instance are a still proprietary API.

matthewmacleod 12y ago
Touch events for instance are a still proprietary API. It's a W3C recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/ http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/
- aikah 12y ago
  AFAIK there was a issue with Apple holding some copyrights on the api,might have changed.
  - rbyers 12y ago
    There was a delay, but we worked past it. The web would definitely be a better place if Apple would participate in the input API standardization process though.
icantthinkofone 12y ago
It won't become a standard unless there are at least two complete implementations in browsers.
gtjrossi 12y ago
Pointer Events is a Candidate Recommendation at the W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/ http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/ It has 2 implementations (Firefox has implemented in a special branch and is working to port it to their main codebase) and a near complete test suite. Thus it's expected to reach the final Recommendation state soon. So I don't think the standardization status will change Google's opinion here. (I edit the PE spec and work on IE)