Re: [pointerevents] Initial thoughts for gestures (#636)

(I am interested in joining for that session.  Found this issue through that breakout proposal.)

I understand that your design goal here is to support higher-level gestures like "swipe", but I wonder if you have consider even simpler gestures:

- "Pointer Click/Tap"
- "Keyboard/Composition Input" (I do understand these aren't pointer events :)

Yes, pointerId and key code's and composition events/mode exist.  But I think all the same arguments you make for the more complicated gestures apply to these simple things as well.

Use cases:
- The Performance Event Timing API already tries to aggregate related event timings under a common "interaction id", but this would be nice to define in terms of standard gestures.
- Developers have asked for mechanisms that simplify associating ephemeral state with related events based on interactions (which is really a common gesture)

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