- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:13:02 +0000
- To: public-pointer-events@w3.org
Dear all, thank you for attending the breakout session https://github.com/w3c/breakouts-day-2026/issues/3 Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QfnihTNHLttrC5w_ze0s1N-higvqnqoKtBdlzu7luUY/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p Minutes at https://www.w3.org/2026/03/25-pointerevents-minutes.html and copied below: Pointer Gestures at W3C Breakout Days 2026 25 March 2026 Agenda: https://github.com/w3c/breakouts-day-2026/issues/3 IRC log: https://www.w3.org/2026/03/25-pointerevents-irc Attendees hober, marie, matatk, Patrick_H_Lauke, plh, smaug Chair: Patrick Lauke Scribe: Marie-Claire Forgue <marie> plh: is it assumed that we can be able to polyfill these events or not? <marie> patrick: possibly <marie> olli: what is a gesture? <Zakim> matatk, you wanted to ask about the set of gestures being explored matt: following an ATAG review, you mention pinches, swipes, etc. - so wondering if dwell, etc. can complete the set of gestures? Or is it too late? … have you heard from devs? patrick: we are still defining the shape of the proposed charter … longpress is tricky - like what is long? ;) tess: many other platforms have a gesture recognizer - a mechanism observing the raw events <plh>GestureRecognizer Class tess: the obvious way for th browser to implement is via gesture recognizer … there is a pre set of features … to be found in literature and from surveys plh: are we trying to support a final set of features or designing an API that may allow to define gestures? patrick: define your own gesture is part of what Microsoft did at a certain time - not submitted for a W3C spec. It disappeared eventually plh: if you are trying to define a set of features at high level - we'd need an incubation on this, btw - ... patrick: any other high level events? tess: i'd recomend a litterature review... look at other platforms and make lists … find out what developers have access to... rob?: if done at the OS level, it would work better - resp to accessibility rob: click count to define a double click patrick: let's double chcek the double clik ;) plh: can we get literature on what are the apps using out there? patrick: some stuff might be outdated - I believe that JQuery has built-in … Angular, etc. Patrick: agree another next step is to get feedback from developers to get a sense on what gestures plh: would be nice to survey the developers … what do they use? rob?: component libraries are important too rob?: some OS maynot allow you to remap patrick [asking plh about the process specifics wrt that spec] plh: wrt current charter, incubation is one option … we should both develop a proposal AND a polyfill plh: edge swipe … going from one page to another [marie, patrick, plh]: questionnaire discussion rob: what developers are trying to accomplish with these gestures. One of my goals is to present the simplest API possible patrick: may be rotation and scale ... gestures that can be plugged in CSS <Patrick_H_Lauke> was just saying ... "i think we're coming to the end" and the event stopped :) <Patrick_H_Lauke> anyway, thank you all for attending <smaug> thank you -- Patrick H. Lauke * https://www.splintered.co.uk/ * https://github.com/patrickhlauke * https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ * https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke
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