Standardisation of Gesture events

Hi,


I was wondering if there is any ongoing effort to standardise higher level
events for gestures?
The only related documents I could find are [0] from 2009 and a
proprietary Microsoft implementation [1].

In case there is none I¹d like to start one.

Currently I am writing (yet another) JS library [2] to support some
gestures like tap, dbltap, hold, pinch, flick, swipe.
Other libraries like Hammer [3] can¹t handle multiple pointers
simultaneously or lack of accuracy when detecting gesture [4] (e.g. Hold
is not aborted on move).

Imho a specification should cover a Gesture interfaces and its properties
+ constraints like the maximum movement (in inch) for a pointer to be
recognised as a tap or the ³hold" time. Eventually this should lead to
that browsers handle gestures rather than a JS library.

Any interest on that?

Regards,
Damien


[0] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2009AprJun/0134.html
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn433243%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
[2] https://github.com/PolyTouch/PolyTouch.js
[3] http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/
[4] https://github.com/Polymer/PointerGestures/
[5] 
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-February/279622.ht
ml