Minutes from PEWG meeting 30 July 2025

Dear all,

the minutes from today's meeting are available on 
https://www.w3.org/2025/07/30-pointerevents-minutes.html and copied below.



PEWG
30 July 2025
Agenda: 
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/66591f6b-6694-4f90-b23d-bf8f1b9dda8a/20250730T110000/
IRC log: https://www.w3.org/2025/07/30-pointerevents-irc

Attendees

Present
flackr, gastonr, mustaq, Patrick_H_Lauke

Regrets
smaug

Chair: Patrick H. Lauke
Scribe: Patrick H. Lauke



* Web Platform Tests https://wpt.live/pointerevents/ / 
https://wpt.fyi/results/pointerevents?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

* Recharter https://www.w3.org/2023/11/wg-pointer-events-charter.html

* Any particular old or new issues that we want to start thinking 
about/tackling? https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues



# Web Platform Tests https://wpt.live/pointerevents/ / 
https://wpt.fyi/results/pointerevents?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

Patrick: i know we now have all the tests, but wanted to get a feel for 
how we're actually doing with coverage in browsers

mustaq: i see a big block of problems with the various -touch-action- 
related tests

Patrick: I also see a lot of "harness ERROR" / "harness TIMEOUT" problems...

mustaq: yes this may be down to webdriver not supporting touch. recently 
there's been some movement about testing touch in webdriver, but i don't 
know if this has been updated here

<mustaq> What about proposing this part of Interop 2026?

Patrick: so i think a good first step from here is to perhaps 
investigate the various harness problems. not sure if any of you have 
the ability/time to look at that? we may actually have less "red" than 
initially apparent

Patrick: a lot of problems seem to be specifically in Safari+harness

mustaq: another block is related to DOM changes

Patrick: those are probably because these weren't defined properly 
anywhere, and we made a "sensible" call on this. not surprising that 
browsers haven't coalesced towards it

Robert: yeah we were getting different results in all browsers. Is 
anybody at Apple aware/working on this?

mustaq: i see that's part of interop so should be aware

<mustaq> 
https://wpt.fyi/results/pointerevents?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&view=interop&q=label%3Ainterop-2023-events

<mustaq> Interop 2025 covers only ~2 of the DOM-change tests.

Patrick: if only 2 in interop 2025, then worth making sure the remaining 
ones make it into interop 2026

mustaq: just checked, it's 3, not 2

Patrick: so i don't think it's a big worry the amount of red we have 
now, but would be good to at least investigate the cases where the 
harness is causing problems/not supporting the testing properly 
(particularly in Safari)

Patrick: anybody want to officially take on the task of investigating 
what's going on with harness in WPT

gastonr: i could give it a go

mustaq: , but at last year's TPAC they mentioned they are working on 
their own webdriver (?)

<mustaq> Safari mentioned adding WebDriver support for touch during last 
year TPAC but I don't know much beyond that.

ACTION: Gaston to have look at WPT harness issues, Rob and Mustaq to 
help out/point in right direction if needed



# Recharter https://www.w3.org/2023/11/wg-pointer-events-charter.html

Patrick: i noticed that our charter runs out november 2025. I will get 
in touch with PLH to see what we need to do

ACTION: Patrick to talk to PLH about charter extension/recharter



# Any particular old or new issues that we want to start thinking 
about/tackling? https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues

Mustaq: we were looking at w3c/pointerevents#542

Patrick: pull request for this w3c/pointerevents#460

Rob: i'm aware of the problem about the pseudoelements

Rob: ... we are looking at exposing events to pseudoelements (a separate 
attribute on the event)

Rob: pretty sure this has been in CSS WG

Rob: i think there is possible path. if we have that, then there's the 
possibility of solving issue with a pseudoelement target attribute. 
other alternatives, like a boundary for clicks that can be opted in

Mustaq: do we expect those proposals to become part of PE?

Rob: not necessarily...maybe CSS WG, but there's crossover similar to 
touch-action

Mustaq: we need another issue then ... we need to hold back PR 460

Rob: the PR just says hold back sending click. and handwaves/magics away 
the exact HOW

<mustaq> The list of options Rob suggested appears here: 
w3c/pointerevents#542 (comment)

Patrick: I would say let's keep #460 for another 2 weeks until our next 
meeting, and then merge. just to make sure we're not missing a nuance

Mustaq: i will be on vacation during our next meeting

Patrick: we'll keep this short, unless there's any other open issues you 
want to discuss right now. thank you all for attending, see you next time


# Summary of action items

* Gaston to have look at WPT harness issues, Rob and Mustaq to help 
out/point in right direction if needed
* Patrick to talk to PLH about charter extension/recharter



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Patrick H. Lauke

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