Touch event timeout on mobile sites

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 45)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Chrome on Android currently has a touch ACK timeout of 200ms for desktop sites. If the renderer does not respond to a touch event before the timeout delay, the touch sequence is cancelled and any associated gestures are dispatched. This change restores a touch timeout for sites with a mobile-friendly viewport, but with a timeout delay of 1 second.

Standards & signals

Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Mixed signals
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=497852

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/12k_LL_Ot9GjF8zGWP9eI_3IMbSizD72susba0frg44Y/view#heading=h.5zfdv2co2oj

Samples: rbyers.net/touch-timeout.html

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