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In the case of blink-dev, yeah moderators like me. But AFAIK we didn't block any replies there at all because nobody in that forum was making threats or anything like that. I also …

> Some things just aren't consistent, and I don't believe that you know what "the openness of the web" means, or really care :-). I certainly could have done a better job trying to…

Thank you!

Did you read the rest of the thread? Plenty of really good constructive yet forceful feedback on that thread which I was applauding and celebrating.

I think it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that I "tarred all opposition as criminals". Still I admit my wording could have been better, please see follow-up: https://groups.googl…

Bingo

Did you see my point later in the thread about moderators like me explicitly approving all the posts which were arguing forcefully (but respectfully) against WEI? I think it's pret…

I'm one of the blink API owners who would need to approve this feature if it were to ship in Chrome. I outlined some of my thoughts on this earlier here: https://groups.google.com/…

This is a complicated set of trade offs and I've argued on both sides of the fence so I can't pretend to imply the decision is at all clear cut. But let me respond to a couple deta…

I think there is a valid concern here. But what we're seeing in practice from many major frameworks and apps is that they're unifying events anyway and special-casing the device ty…

Of course Microsoft has now shown the DO value compatibility enough to implement Touch Events, and is even one of the most active members in the Touch Events community group workin…

> I'm pretty sure Microsoft is going to go full steam ahead with pointer events. Note that even Microsoft acknowledges the "touch events are here to stay" argument: IE mobile now s…

Agreed! We had a great "input face-to-face" meeting at Microsoft back in June, and the collaboration between IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome teams seems better than ever. Despite ou…

Right, we (Chrome team) definitely care about multi-input-device scenarios (I started at Google by leading the chrome work for the chromebook pixel). We're just trying to project o…

There was a delay, but we worked past it. The web would definitely be a better place if Apple would participate in the input API standardization process though.

Well said. We're deeply committed on the blink team to making such polyfills and frameworks easy (eg. it's a big part of why we shipped touch-action in blink). That's where the fig…