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I've looked everywhere for how to capture touch pad input for laptops but I can't seem to find anything for Chrome extensions/JavaScript.
Question: how can I capture the number of fingers down (not clicked, just down and potentially moving as you would with a mouse), their corresponding x,y coordinates, and their corresponding up events, for a touch pad on a laptop?
Clarifications:
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Touchpads operate in one of several ways, including capacitive sensing or resistive touchscreen. The most common technology used in the 2010s senses the change of capacitance where a finger touches the pad.
The answer I found is that u can use a anti-static conductive plastic (the plastics which appear to be shiny and have "keep away from children" warning :P). U can wrap a small piece of this plastic around the nib of a pen and use it as a stylus for your touchpad!
A touch pad is a device for pointing (controlling input positioning) on a computer display screen. It is an alternative to the mouse. Originally incorporated in laptop computers, touch pads are also being made for use with desktop computers. A touch pad works by sensing the user's finger movement and downward pressure.
Select an item: Tap on the touchpad. Scroll: Place two fingers on the touchpad and slide horizontally or vertically. Zoom in or out: Place two fingers on the touchpad and pinch in or stretch out. Show more commands (similar to right-clicking): Tap the touchpad with two fingers, or press in the lower-right corner.
I can't find it by now, but I somewhere read about this topic. But the synopsis is simple: it's a draft/in development but no browser supports it by now. Here is the W3C draft: https://w3c.github.io/pointerevents/
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