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Mouse on Android stops firing TouchEvents

Category
User input
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 58)
Intent stage
None

Summary

A mouse on an Android M (or later) device: (a) will no longer fire TouchEvents, and (b) will fire a consistent sequence of MouseEvents with appropriate buttons & other properties. Before this change, a low-level mouse events in Android reached blink as a touch event, hence fired a touch event then a compat mouse event if the touch event went uncanceled.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpBR7J7kgTXvp0QACVjhxtwNJ7bgGoTMmxfxN2dupGg/edit?usp=sharing

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