- From: Rick Byers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:47:17 +0000
- To: public-pointer-events@w3.org
Discussed [on the call](https://www.w3.org/2016/04/26-pointerevents-minutes.html#item04) today. We agreed that the IDs should at least be consistent for a given top-level browsing context (tab) as this could be valuable in some scenarios. @NavidZ is going to prepare a spec PR for this. It's an open question whether it's worth trying to define consistency on a broader scope. Eg. it's possible that some drag-between-windows scenario could communicate between pages (even via a server) to handle the input properly. But it's not clear this is even possible today due to OS-level window input capturing. @teddink said he'd investigate the behavior on Windows further (they do support cross-window HTML5 drag-and-drop events). Also because Chrome and Firefox can't rely on the OS to provide unique IDs in the correct form (eg. on Linux) it may not be possible to implement a truly global ID mapping on all OSes (Edge gets this for free from Windows). -- GitHub Notification of comment by RByers Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/52#issuecomment-214864388 using your GitHub account
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