Yeah this seems like a pretty valid use case to fix in the gesture system.
I'll investigate this for the next release.
On Oct 22, 2014 9:19 AM, "Akhilesh" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apologies for delayed response. Was kind of heads down with the Dreamforce
> prep and polymer demos, which were just awesome!
>
> Coming back to the preventDefault problem, I was able to create a simple
> sample that shows the issue. Try this link on Chrome on iOS:
> http://jsbin.com/mogusutono
> Source: http://jsbin.com/mogusutono/edit?html
>
> When you click the button, the view navigates to next page with the
> paper-input element. And on the next page, paper-input automatically
> receives a focus event and and keyboard pops up. Not ideal. I am able to
> work-around this by listening for touch-end event after the tap and then
> calling event.preventDefault. Would be better if tap event could handle
> this automatically for me. This also seems to only happen inside the
> UIWebView and not the iOS Safari.
>
> Let me know if you guys need more details. Hope this helps!
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Steve Orvell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Akhilesh,
>>
>> Can you outline why you'd like to prevent clicks? Is it because some
>> other user code may have installed a click listener you want to avoid or is
>> it some native platform action (e.g. following a link) that you want to
>> abort?
>>
>> It would be great if you could just preventDefault in the tap event,
>> unfortunately, tap is generated separately from click and is typically
>> fired after it.
>>
>> As Daniel mentioned, we're investigating providing a relatively easy way
>> to do this in PolymerGestures.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:57 AM, 'Daniel Freedman' via Polymer <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Akhilesh
>>>
>>> We don't currently have a strategy to prevent clicks. I can take a look
>>> at what that would entail.
>>>
>>> Touch-action is only supposed to control scrolling and zoom, so making
>>> the "none" value control clicks as well is a little outside the intended
>>> scope.
>>>
>>> What you can do for now is place a document wide, capturing click
>>> listener that calls stopPropagation inside the "up" event handler, and then
>>> remove that click handler when a click happens, or after a timeout. This is
>>> the approach I am planning to evaluate.
>>> I have been trying to figure out an easier way to prevent click events
>>> from an element that listens for tap. This is more of an issue on touch
>>> devices (iOS in particular). Here's an example:
>>> http://jsbin.com/totuhoveguke/2/edit
>>>
>>> One solution is to attach another listener for touchend and then do
>>> event.preventDefault(). This causes weird side-effects which I want to
>>> avoid. Ideally my assumption was that when I am using touch-action =
>>> "none", I will be able to avoid all default browser events.
>>>
>>> What's the best solution for such cases?
>>>
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