Pointer Events WG call 3 February 2021

Dear all,

Topic: Pointer Events
Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Time (New York, UTC-05:00)

For call details (webex address, meeting number, password), see

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-pointer-events/2019Apr/0000.html

IRC: #pointerevents
http://irc.w3.org/

After managing to get myself utterly confused about which cadence our 
fortnightly call actually falls on, I'd like to, if possible, meet 
tomorrow/today (depending which timezone you're in).

Points to discuss:

- in the last meeting before the xmas break, PLH joined to discuss our 
options for the spec moving forward (see minutes 
https://www.w3.org/2020/12/16-pointerevents-minutes.html). In essence, 
publish PE3, indicating that we want to update in future with new 
features (making it an evergreen/continuous development spec). this also 
has advantages in that there's less hassle "spinning up" a new WG in 
future if there's a desire to extend the spec/add new features. Once 
this is ready to be finalised, I'll send an official CfC to the list, 
but in the meantime please review the minutes and bring any questions to 
the call.

- PHL is currently fixing up/readying the latest charter - see 
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/pe-2020.html. Some comments have 
been made in review, which he is addressing. As above, please review and 
shout if there's any concerns.

- a recent issue that was posted by @smfr / Apple: Specify exactly how 
event coalescing works https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/328 - 
I *think* this may be a case of not being able to spec this because it's 
out of scope (as it moves dangerously close to heuristics/proprietary 
behaviour)?

- looking over some of the fairly old/stale issues, I think it would be 
good to have a think about:

   - Click event while a pointer event is captured 
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/75 - I believe Olli intended 
to do something with this, but I'd need to refresh my memory on what 
this issue was all about exactly. Maybe we can see at the meeting if we 
can unblock this?

   - Could we ever do implicit capture for all pointer types? 
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/125 - this seemed like a 
dangerous idea at the time with high risk of compat problems. I'd 
propose closing this. Let's discuss.

   - Mouse back/forward buttons: page navigation or JS events? 
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/191 - do we want to close 
this as it feels more like a UI Events type discussion?

Thanks,

Patrick
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Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2021 00:28:07 UTC