- From: Rick Byers <rbyers@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:40:11 -0500
- To: olli@pettay.fi
- Cc: public-pointer-events@w3.org
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote: > On 11/20/2012 08:23 PM, Rick Byers wrote: >> >> Hi, >> In the compatibility with mouse events section [1], the pointer events >> draft dictates when mouseenter and mouseleave events should be >> dispatched. However, I believe today only IE and Opera support these >> events [2]. > > Only webkit does not support mouseenter and mouseleave, and IIRC Ah yes, I see the quirksmode page is wrong - Firefox does too. > there are some patches even for webkit to support them. > > > Can we add an 'if supported by the UA' to the wording to >> >> make it clear that some UAs won't dispatch these events? > > Why? mouseenter/leave are spec'ed elsewhere and implementations should > support them. > I guess it's not a big deal. I just wouldn't want to imply that a complete implementation of pointer events MUST support mouseenter/mouseleave also - it would make it harder to get such an implementation into WebKit. If mouseenter/mouseleave is really the right way forward, then I'd argue we should have pointerenter/pointerleave too.
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