Has anyone made any progress on this?  I skimmed through the Webkit
source used in Android, but I couldn't find any non-standard events
(although it is extraordinarily possible that I missed something).

I really need to be able to get touch events and this seems like a
huge omission...

On Oct 21, 8:21 am, "...Max..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way to process the messages generated by the touch events
> in Android's version of WebKit? On iPhone, this is done with
> additional events (ontouchstart, ontouchend, ontouchmove). I
> understand these are not available in Android. I have tried (on the
> emulator) monitoring the onmousedown, onmouseup and onmousemove which
> are implemented in base WebKit and the results were not encouraging:
>
> - Clicking and releasing the mouse without moving it generates
> onmousedown followed by onmouseup but ONLY when the mouse button is
> released
> - Clicking, holding for a short period of time, moving and then
> releasing generates a sequence of onmousemove, onmousedown, onmouseup
> (in that order) again, ONLY when the button is released
> - Clicking, moving immediately and releasing does not generate any
> events
>
> This is clearly not enough for any kind of touch-based UI. Is there
> some provision in the DOM, or a <meta> tag for capturing the missing
> events?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ...Max...

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