Minutes from PEWG meeting 25 February 2026

Dear all,

the minutes from today's short meeting are at 
https://www.w3.org/2026/02/25-pointerevents-minutes.html and copied below:


PEWG
25 February 2026

Agenda: 
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/bc0bed33-fd93-40a6-95bb-10f27c641863/20260225T100000/
IRC log: https://www.w3.org/2026/02/25-pointerevents-irc

Attendees
flackr, mustaq, Patrick_H_Lauke, smaug, vmpstr

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


* Recharter w3c/strategy#515 / W3C Breakout Days 2026 
w3c/breakouts-day-2026#3

* UI Events meeting 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iRFgqtReyomoCwZFEdRUdoW1ManD5t656CVUGJm7Xos/

* WPTs - group to review implementation report 
https://w3c.github.io/pointereventswg/implementation-reports/wpt-pointerevents-2026-01-25.html

* Feedback on w3c/pointerevents#637



# Recharter w3c/strategy#515 / W3C Breakout Days 2026 
w3c/breakouts-day-2026#3

<smaug> w3c/breakouts-day-2026

Patrick: please review the draft entry

[Discussion on time slots - working out what UTC slots translate to for 
US folks]



# UI Events meeting 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iRFgqtReyomoCwZFEdRUdoW1ManD5t656CVUGJm7Xos/

plh: except for WPT, all related PRs have been merged. move has been 
done, published

plh: it did create some headaches. only one remaining is mousewheel, 
need to figure out what to do with it

<plh> web-platform-tests/wpt#57644

plh: PR for WPT

plh: up to you folks to decide when to merge

plh: made fixes to respec etc along the way

mustaq: i promised to look at failing tests for alt key / meta key. 
seems to be down to a bug

plh: that's for WPTs for PE3

flackr: I'd say go ahead with the WPT PR

Olli: +1

plh: don't know if firefox has additional info to disable test results 
into their pipeline...

Olli: so some tests used to fail before, and now...

Olli: can go ahead. annotation happens on our side

plh: need to still bypass checks for nightly stability

Olli: ask James for this

plh: have a look at the PR (Olli) and do what's needed

ACTION: Olli to review the WPT PR web-platform-tests/wpt#57644 with 
regards to firefox nightly stability error

plh: went above and beyond and also did PRs for pointerlock and media ones

Patrick: note that Dom filed a new issue about broken links 
w3c/pointerevents#641

plh: this looks like some documents/specs out there still linking to 
outdated links

plh: could be that it's because the pointerlock change hasn't landed

mustaq: i didn't merge yet...

plh: you can merge, i fixed an existing error there in the workflow



# WPTs - group to review implementation report 
https://w3c.github.io/pointereventswg/implementation-reports/wpt-pointerevents-2026-01-25.html

Olli: i looked, and this looked fine. the pen related tests fail in 
firefox because of the harness

mustaq: the alt/meta failure is a bug in chrome

<mustaq> 
https://wpt.fyi/results/pointerevents?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=pointerevent_boundary_events_modifier_no_pointer_movement.html

plh: so...i can move forward. that's the good news. there is some bad 
news...

plh: i moved too quickly, and now PE3 links to PE4. i'll sort this out, 
nothing for the group to worry about



# Feedback on w3c/pointerevents#637

Patrick: discussed this two weeks ago. think we were agreed at this 
point that the PR as it stands is not ideal, and we're not keen to take 
it up as is. making such a weird exception seems hacky and a bad 
precedent. more work should happen upstream at the openUI side on the 
concept

Patrick: no further topics, we can keep it short today. reminder to have 
a look at w3c/breakouts-day-2026#3 if you get a chance to add anything 
else that may be of interest. i'll cook up an agenda closer to the time 
(just basic intro, setting the scene, things we looked at as 
inspiration, opening the floor for folks to discuss/feed back). and as 
ever thanks to philippe for his help/technical expe[CUT]

h all the UI events merging.

plh: need to decide at some point which definition style you want, as 
now with the merge you have two different styles (table and ?)

Patrick: we'll set some time aside next meeting for it

Patrick: Thank you all, see you in two weeks' time



# Summary of action items

* Olli to review the WPT PR web-platform-tests/wpt#57644 with regards to 
firefox nightly stability error


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Patrick H. Lauke

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Received on Wednesday, 25 February 2026 16:13:42 UTC