Re: Make mouseenter/mouseleave behavior optional

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Jacob Rossi <Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I agree that mouseenter/mouseleave should not be required if a UA doesn't implement them. In fact, neither should mousedown/mouseup/mousemove/mouseover/mouseout. I consider the section on mouse events purely for compat with legacy content. You could imagine a UA that doesn't have legacy content to deal with and just wants to implement pointer. Once we have an issue tracker, we should add this.

Makes sense.

> Though, for browsers, I agree with Olli:  mouseenter/mouseleave are great.  I'd like to discuss adding pointerenter/pointerleave as well (also should be added to issue tracker).  The primary reason these are good events is that they map to the CSS :hover state.

Great.  Can you shed any light on why IE doesn't have
MSPointerEnter/MSPointerLeave?  It seemed odd to me that it was
omitted, made me wonder if there was perhaps a specific technical
issue or other problem.

>
> -Jacob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Byers [mailto:rbyers@google.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:40 AM
> To: olli@pettay.fi
> Cc: public-pointer-events@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Make mouseenter/mouseleave behavior optional
>
> 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.
>

Received on Wednesday, 21 November 2012 02:21:39 UTC