Bug 150469

Summary:	remove 350ms touch > mouse events delay for width=device-width viewport
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Patrick H. Lauke <redux>
Component:	UI Events	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	Normal	CC:	dpcalhoun, irae, m.goleb+bugzilla, nekr.fabula, rbyers, webkit, wenson_hsieh
Priority:	P2
Version:	WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware:	iPhone / iPad
OS:	Unspecified

Description Patrick H. Lauke 2015-10-22 13:40:55 PDT

(opening this as a separate issue from https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122212)

Chrome [1], Firefox and MS Edge currently remove the 300-350ms delay between touchend and the mouse compatibility events (see [2]) for "mobile optimized" pages that have a viewport of width=device-width.
Pages are still zoomable using pinch-to-zoom, but not double-tap-to-zoom. Supporting this in iOS would obviate the need for mobile sites to use tricks such as fastclick.js

Although a more declarative method will now be available with touch-action:manipulation [3], it may still be worth considering this for compatibility with the other major browsers (and the fact that it's arguably the path of least resistance for developers: support for this would mean that sites which currently use width=device-width and fastclick.js can simply remove the latter, vs removing fastclick AND explicitly adding touch-action:manipulation).

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away?hl=en
[2] http://patrickhlauke.github.io/touch/tests/results/#suppressing-300ms-delay
[3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149854

Comment 1 Patrick H. Lauke 2015-10-22 13:48:17 PDT

Copying over a useful comment from rbyers from https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122212 which provides some hard data

"Some usage data from Chrome which may be helpful in having a data-oriented debate here: 
 - only 0.6% of taps lead to a double tap
   - rises to 3.5% considering only sites where double tap is enabled
 - 75% (and increasing) of pages loaded on Android have a mobile viewport
 - 84% of taps (and increasing) occur on pages with a mobile viewport"

Comment 2 Wenson Hsieh 2015-10-27 17:01:28 PDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 150604 ***