Re: User interaction events

Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the IndieUI activity working on this sort of
stuff right now? http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I think it's exactly the kind
> of overarching concern the TAG can help with.
>
> In general, it sounds like this is a pretty big task, and it's going to be
> hard to make progress on the larger project of fixing UI events in the near
> future. But for now, perhaps what would be helpful is for us to reach out
> to relevant specification editors when we see them falling into these sorts
> of traps, e.g. in the pointer events case, and give them some guidance on
> how to avoid common underspecification pitfalls---in short, ask them not to
> make the problem any worse than it already is.
>
> What does everyone think? In particular I think we should consider how we
> can help pointer-events as soon as possible.
>
>