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Stricter user gestures for touch

Category

User input

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 52)

Intent stage

None

Summary

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).

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oF1T3O7_E4t1PYHV6gyCwHxOi3ystm0eSL5xZu7nvOg/edit#heading=h.qq59ev3u8fba
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=582140

Docs: 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

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

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