Add the possibility to decide if the holdToDrag delay should be applied or not

[Mboulianne]

Hello, I'm having a small issue on PC / laptops with a touch enabled screen.

1- When I try to drag and drop using the touch screen the holdToDrag delay is being applied. All is good and feel very natural. 2- Then I take the mouse and try to drag. The holdToDrag delay is still there and it doesn't feel natural at all. We are used to drag and drop right away with a mouse.

I'd like to have a hook that allows me to tell the polyfill if it should go on and apply the delay.

Does it make sense to you?

[reppners]

Welcome :)

So your PC is emulating touch events when using the mouse? Thats basically the issue. If you're using a mouse there should be mouse events. The polyfill only picks up on touch events.

Theres two options

• find a way to configure the machine/browser to emit mouse events when a mouse is used
• find a way to discern emulated touch events (emitted when using the mouse) from regular touch events (the polyfill features a hook to decide if drag should start based on the touch event), but I'm pretty sure this is rather impossible.

EDIT: Theres a third variant. Refactor this polyfill to pick up on pointer events, too. Maybe your browser has full support for pointer events and will enable to discern mouse from touch events.

[reppners]

Closing because as of now this is non-actionable. Will reopen if discussion leads to actionable outcome.