User gesture for touch scrolling

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Removed (Chrome 56)
Intent stage: None

Summary

No longer allow opening pop-ups (and other sensitive operations) to occur during input events which represent a touch scroll. In particular, touchstart and touchmove listeners now never have a user gesture. touchend listeners do have a user gesture unless the user was scrolling / pinching. Builds on https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5649871251963904.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#activation-triggering-input-event
Firefox: No signal
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611981

Docs: https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/13 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oF1T3O7_E4t1PYHV6gyCwHxOi3ystm0eSL5xZu7nvOg/edit

Samples: http://output.jsbin.com/kibaxu

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