Stricter user gestures for touch

Don't allow opening popups (and other sensitive operations) on touch events which don't correspond to a tap from inside of cross-origin iframes (Chrome 52).

Demo

• http://rbyers.net/touch-popup-crossorigin.html

Documentation

• https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/13
• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/06/chrome-52-deprecations#block-pop-ups-from-cross-origin-iframes-during-touch-events-except-during-a-tap-gesture

Specification

Public discussion

Status in Chromium

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 52
• Chrome for Android release 52
• Android WebView release 52
• Opera release 39
• Opera for Android release 39

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: No signals

Owner

• rbyers@chromium.org

Last updated on 2016-11-07