Re: [pointerevents] Value of button attribute for pointermove event from Olli Pettay on 2016-02-01 (public-pointer-events@w3.org from January to March 2016)

From: Olli Pettay <olli@pettay.fi>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 16:00:10 +0200
To: Rick Byers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>, public-pointer-events@w3.org, Jacob Rossi <Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com>
Message-ID: <56AF64EA.7090200@pettay.fi>

On 02/01/2016 05:00 AM, Rick Byers via GitHub wrote:
> I should add that as far as I can see this property doesn't matter
> much one way or the other - there's not much value in reading the
> `button` value of a `pointermove` event (should probably be using
> `buttons` instead for any real use case).  So I'd personally also be
> happy to update the spec to match Edge's behavior and ask Mozilla to
> change.

As always I'd prefer to try to have the better behavior spec'ed whenever possible.
So here, Edge's behavior feels odd.
Jacob, do you recall the reasoning for .button handling in IE/Edge?


   -Olli





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> Did you have a particular use case in mind?
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Received on Monday, 1 February 2016 14:00:43 UTC