Standard accessibility disclaimer to people developing websites: please do <i>not</i> set "user-scalable=no" in the viewport meta tag, as this prevents users from pinch-zooming the page.<p>Many designers think "there's no need to allow zooming", but this is often coming from people who are blessed with youth and/or great eye-sight. A lot of people (especially as we get older) need to be able to zoom in to read things, or we just want to zoom in on images to be able to see more detail (especially graphics that have text in them).<p>Fortunately, you don't need to set "user-scalable=no" in order to reap the benefits of the "no tap delay" (thank you to the webkit team for hearing people's feedback about this and changing course from their original plan which was to only disable tap delay when page wasn't scalable).
Long, long overdue. While it is true that the web is slower than native apps, a lot of people's perception of slowness is directly attributable to this delay on click events.
Why did it take eight years to implement this work around? This would have been useful in 2007 after SJ, himself, told us to make web apps in leu native apps for the then non-existent App Store.
Chrome implemented this ~2 years ago, while retaining the pinch zooming. <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/12/300ms-tap-...</a>
Fantastic! Now if you could fix sending us the scrollTop accurately during momentum scrolling (inside requestAnimationFrame is fine) that would be amazing!