ISSUE-22: Does an element have to also register for touchstart event in order to receive touchend/touchmove events

Does an element have to also register for touchstart event in order to receive touchend/touchmove events

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Touch Events v1 spec

Raised by:

Cathy Chan

Opened on:

2011-09-13

Description:

In the definition of the touchend event (Section 5.5):
[[ The target of this event must be the same Element that received the
touchstart event when this touch point was placed on the surface, even if the
touch point has since moved outside the interactive area of the target
element.]]

Does this mean that an element always has to register also for touchstart
events in order to receive touchend events? In other words, if, for whatever
reason, an element registers only for touchend events and not touchstart
events, will it receive any events? Note that this is how the example in
Section 5.3.2 is set up.

Ditto for the touchmove event (Section 5.6).

Related Actions Items:

• ACTION-71 on Cathy Chan to Create a proposal to address Issue-22 - due 2011-09-27, closed

Related emails:

1. Re: Missing Touch.target attribute in Touch Events v1 LCWD (from mbrubeck@mozilla.com on 2011-11-14)
2. Draft minutes: 11 October 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-10-11)
3. Draft Agenda: 11 October 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-10-10)
4. Draft minutes: 4 October 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-10-04)
5. Draft agenda: 4 October 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-10-03)
6. Draft minutes: 27 September 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-09-27)
7. Re: Regrets for this week (from Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi on 2011-09-27)
8. Regrets for this week (from dzung.d.tran@intel.com on 2011-09-27)
9. Proposed text changes to Touch Events v1 (from Cathy.Chan@nokia.com on 2011-09-26)
10. Draft agenda: 27 September 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-09-26)
11. Draft minutes: 20 September 2011 call (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-09-20)
12. Regrets for today (from andersh@opera.com on 2011-09-20)
13. Draft agenda: 20 September 2011 (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-09-19)
14. Fwd: Draft agenda: 20 September 2011 (from art.barstow@nokia.com on 2011-09-19)
15. WebEvents-ISSUE-22: Does an element have to also register for touchstart event in order to receive touchend/touchmove events [Touch Events v1 spec] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-09-13)

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