Minutes from Pointer Events WG call 3 February 2021

Dear all,

minutes from today's call are at 
https://www.w3.org/2021/02/03-pointerevents-minutes.html and also copied 
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PEWG 03 February 2021

Attendees Present: Patrick_H_Lauke, smaug
Regrets: -
Chair: Patrick H. Lauke
Scribe: Patrick_H_Lauke

Contents
* Specify exactly how event coalescing works
* Click event while a pointer event is captured
* Could we ever do implicit capture for all pointer types?
* Mouse back/forward buttons: page navigation or JS events?
* AOB

Meeting minutes
Patrick: as it's only me and Olli, and Olli was present at that call, we 
can save ourselves discussion on the first items about new 
charter/future of PEWG after PE3

will remind Google to review on mailing list. Will ask PLH when the best 
time is to run the CfC for new charter

# Specify exactly how event coalescing works
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/328

Olli: I commented on the issue. it's tricky. in Gecko, mouse events 
coalescing happens in browser on desktop. but on Android, we can use 
APIs closer to OS events

It can be an implementation detail

Patrick: also, I get feeling that this is area that we wanted to avoid 
due to IPR concerns / out-of-scope for our group

Olli: being too precise may also hinder future 
implementations/alternative implementations

Patrick: just checking our (new) charter

Olli: it doesn't really squarely fall in any of our out-of-scope areas 
directly. Might be worth asking @smfr if there is a specific area of 
implementation he had in mind. let me add a comment

Patrick: sure. it won't happen for PE3, but once we move to evergreen 
model we could look at this further

# Click event while a pointer event is captured
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/75

Olli: just added a comment there as well. This was about removing a hack 
due to the way Blink originally behaved. I'll check what the most recent 
behaviour is, and depending on that will move ahead with potentially 
making update to spec accordingly.

# Could we ever do implicit capture for all pointer types?
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/125

Patrick: the state of the issue at the time was "we need to run some 
more tests, has compat issues though". Wonder if it's now too late to 
make this breaking change. I personally quite like the model we have, 
where touch is implicitly captured mainly because of the specific nature 
of touch interface, finger used for both activating things and 
scrolling, and it's what authors are used to from touch events. for 
mouse though, authors

are used to having no capture and having to hack things, e.g. adding 
listeners to the whole body on mousedown and removing them again on 
mouseup. so having to explicitly capture the pointer doesn't seem like a 
big ask to me

and being a breaking change, it might well be too late now to do it, 
unexpected, and likely to break more things as more devs now starting to 
use PE

# Mouse back/forward buttons: page navigation or JS events?
https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/191

Olli: just been testing. On Linux the buttons fire on the down event. On 
Windows, they fire on the up. Problem with trying to define in PE is 
that we'd have to standardise this and get buy-in from platforms 
themselves, which is trickier.

Patrick: also, do these buttons currently even fire MOUSE events? let 
alone pointer events

Olli: from testing now, don't seem to fire mouse events

Patrick: in which case i'd say this is something more fundamental, at UI 
events level. not something we should spec out in PE. there is an open 
issue with UI events, so let's see what happens there first. Once 
discussion has happened THERE, we can then decide if the events that do 
get fired (if they decide they should) are pointer events

Olli: or some higher level event like contextmenu

Patrick: propose closing this and waiting to see what UI events 
discussion does

Olli: agreed

Patrick: closing issue

# AOB
Patrick: as there's no other issues, let's keep this short. I will reach 
out to Google to see if they're still keen to push this over the last 
few hurdles to PE Level 3, and with PLH about when to do the CfC to have 
an official go-ahead for the new model/charter. Meanwhile, speak to you 
in 2 weeks' time.

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