Enable sending touch events

[potmo]

Since phantomjs sees itself as a touch enabled browser it would be nice to be able to fire off touch events.
We have a page that attaches touch events for mobile browsers (i.e. when ('ontouchend' in window) == true) and click events for desktop.

When automating tests with mocha/jasmine and phantomjs touch events are attached but I can't dispatch any touch events from phantom so I'm a bit stuck.

So please add the possibility to send

• touchstart
• touchend
• touchmove

and possibly

• touchcenter
• touchleave
• touchcancel

to page.sendEvent()

I'm not sure on how multi touch would fit into all of this.

Maybe this would be a nice workaround for #10375 [phantomjs pretends to be a touch browser]

[Havelock-Vetinari]

It would not be a workaround at all :-) There are web page design which changes behavior when browser reports touch capabilities. I agree what adding those event would be nice thing, but ability to switch off touch capabilities is still very important. I wonder if QT5 version of WebKit allows such in runtime switching

[fancsali]

I know, this is an age old ticket, but I believe as time goes by this gets more and more important.

[82antu]

Hi,

Same Issue Here;

I found the workaround for MouseEvent:

var evt: MouseEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");

instead of

var evt = new MouseEvent("click", {
    bubbles: true,
    cancelable: true,
    view: window
  });

and both Chrome and PhantomJs work, but, the first one doesn t work on PhantomJs for TouchEvent,
and, the second one, doesn t work on Chrome

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