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Pointer Events

Category
User input
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 55)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Unified pointer input API subsuming MouseEvent and TouchEvents which addresses several existing problems (especially on touchscreen laptops) and provides future extensibility. Intent-to-implement thread: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/ODWmcKNQl0I This was behind a flag starting in Chrome 52.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/pointer-events https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PointerEvent

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