By doing so, application event handlers can preventDefault on the event, and interactions won't get the event any more. This means that interactions are default behavior that can be prevented by application event handlers.
Adding a new DragBox control and using it in the shiftdragzoom interaction to provide visual feedback of the zoom box. The control is nicely separated from the interaction - it only draws the box and does not perform any action.
By handling click, dblckick and drag sequences in MapBrowserEvent, we can overcome closure issues with touch events. In particular, these issues were double drag events (from mousemove and touchmove) and a missing dblclick event on touch devices.