The original proposal for touchscreen behavior was to leave the specifics up to user agents. I.e. specify that browsers **must** provide their users (all of them) a way to "show interest" in an element, without specifying exactly how to to that on touchscreens. Since it is **currently impossible on the web** to provide users a similar functionality (access context menu **and** hovercard with a single gesture), there is no obvious cow-path to pave on touchscreen. So this option leaves the details of the behavior unspecified, which allows user agents to experiment and iterate on good UX patterns.
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