User activation through long-press gesture

The long-press gesture should be considered a user activation because it indicates user's interaction with the page. This would allow a web app to call restricted APIs like navigator.vibrate() on long-press to match native behavior.

Demo

https://output.jsbin.com/bonadab

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Input

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 68
Chrome for Android release 68
Chrome for iOS release 68
Android WebView release 68

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

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

Owner

mustaq@chromium.org

Last updated on 2018-05-02