Why mobile browsers artificially add 1/3 second delay to every tap

Last week Stephen Schenck brought us news about some changes coming to the Google Chrome Beta channel, specifically the elimination of an artificial 300 ms lag. Why would anyone deliberately add almost 1/3 second delay to interactions with web pages? Believe it or not, there’s a legitimate reason behind it — but it’s one that Google intends to remove — when applicable. One of the major challenges Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others faced when ...

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