Thanks for the pointer to the metabug! I'll keep an eye on it and try
to test those issues to see if they still happen. This was a major
concern for me as well, which is why this is Nightly-only for now.
Even if there are sites that are broken I definitely think we should
push hard to get them fixed because we can't not support touch
forever.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Jim Mathies <jmath...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:50:44 AM UTC-6, Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
>> In bug 1180706 I turned on the dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled pref for
>> Windows desktop builds. This should be in Jan 31 nightly. For devices
>> that have touchscreens, this has two effects:
>
> The last time we turned this on it caused numerous problems. Please see bug 
> 806805 for a list of issues that cropped up.
>
> One problem is that the touch events we send from win32 widget aren't spec, 
> the other involved sites that started treating desktop like mobile. We ended 
> up having to turn touch events off due to these issues.
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