Minutes from PEWG meeting 22 April 2026

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the minutes from today's meeting are at 
https://www.w3.org/2026/04/22-pointerevents-minutes.html and copied below:

PEWG
22 April 2026

Agenda: 
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/bc0bed33-fd93-40a6-95bb-10f27c641863/20260422T100000/
IRC log: https://www.w3.org/2026/04/22-pointerevents-irc

Attendees

flackr, nicolo-ribaudo, Patrick_H_Lauke, smaug

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


* Impact of AI technologies on Pointer Events Working Group's mission 
w3c/webai-roadmap#26
* Expose 'inertial scrolling state' in wheel events w3c/pointerevents#587
* Follow-up from W3C Breakout Day session w3c/breakouts-day-2026#3
* Status of PEv3


# Impact of AI technologies on Pointer Events Working Group's mission 
w3c/webai-roadmap#26

<mustaq> There was a BlinkOn talk on a new `wpt-gen` tool on Monday.

Patrick: my kneejerk reaction was that AI wouldn't really have an impact 
on us

Olli: AI can be useful to generate tests...

Patrick: ah, good point, was thinking of AI agents as such, but yes

Olli: could also be useful for spec reviews

Nicolo: yes, i find it useful to run specs through AI to catch 
silly/small mistakes

ACTION: Patrick to reply to thread on webai-roadmap

<smaug> btw, when dealing with the specs, jnjaeschke/webspec-index can 
be useful

Rob: wonder if AI could help to catch under-specified bits

Rob: it may help find things that work differently in different browsers

Olli: it could compare code and results, and if it finds a difference it 
could write test cases?


# Expose 'inertial scrolling state' in wheel events w3c/pointerevents#587

Patrick: i believe mustaq assigned this to himself

mustaq: i completely forgot, will get this done

ACTION: mustaq to write PR for issue #587


# Follow-up from W3C Breakout Day session w3c/breakouts-day-2026#3

Patrick: there were some good ideas at the end of that session about how 
to unblock us on the charter renewal - from memory, we wanted to 
incubate the gesture aspect a bit further, and not make our charter 
contingent on it, but still allow us the freedom/option to explore as 
part of our group without needing to spin up a whole new group

Patrick: I will catch up with Philippe about this to see if a) he 
remembers the specific ideas we discussed (I'm sure WICG/incubation was 
involved) and b) if we can make it happen, so that we can unblock our 
charter renewal

ACTION: Patrick to discuss with PLH about next steps regarding PEv4 
charter and gestures

<smaug> Btw, gestures related issue whatwg/html#12374


# Status of PEv3

Patrick: was hoping for PLH to be able to give us an update, but i will 
see if i can catch him to see what's going on, if anything, with PEv3 
going to REC or not

ACTION: Patrick to check with PLH on PEv3 REC status


[general open-ended discussion on different gesture-related activities, 
once we get to incubation]

[discussion on "has anybody tried VR goggles like meta quest and visionOS]

Patrick: here's the crazy demo I tried aeons ago with leap motion and 
pointer events https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqSW-chteM

https://patrickhlauke.github.io/touch/

https://patrickhlauke.github.io/touch/tracker/multi-touch-tracker-pointer-hud.html

Patrick: thank you all, catch you again in 2 weeks' time



# Summary of action items

* Patrick to reply to thread on webai-roadmap
* mustaq to write PR for issue #587
* Patrick to discuss with PLH about next steps regarding PEv4 charter 
and gestures
* Patrick to check with PLH on PEv3 REC status


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Patrick H. Lauke

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Received on Wednesday, 22 April 2026 14:45:09 UTC