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Re:Tired of Safari by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @10:08AM (#9107026)
> BUT: I doubt this pointer event thing is a good example for their reluctance because it's really just a nice-to-have feature for the Surface and the Note series which is for my taste a too small target to justify a standard.

This is inaccurate. The pointer events standard allows you to avoid the 300ms delay mobile / touch screen browsers have and is useful across all devices. Without it you have to continue using hacks to prevent the delay.

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Re:Tired of Safari by bonn1 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @10:18AM (#9107082)
This is inaccurate. Nowadays, the 300ms goes already away if you set the meta viewport tag with width=device-width etc [1]

[1] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-a...

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Re:Tired of Safari by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @10:43AM (#9107229)
That is still pretty new and not all browsers support it; pointer events is a better solution to this problem.
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Re:Tired of Safari by bonn1 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @10:51AM (#9107281)
Chrome on Android and Safari on iOS support it for more than a year now => 93% of the market
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Re:Tired of Safari by Elepsis on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @11:39AM (#9107654)
Your 93% market number is perhaps accurate in the entirely hypothetical world where most Android devices actually get swift upgrades to new versions, but not in reality.
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