Minutes from PEWG meeting 1 July 2026

Dear all,

the minutes from today's short meeting are at 
https://www.w3.org/2026/07/01-pointerevents-minutes.html and copied below:


PEWG
01 July 2026

Agenda: 
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/bc0bed33-fd93-40a6-95bb-10f27c641863/20260701T100000/
IRC log: https://www.w3.org/2026/07/01-pointerevents-irc

Attendees
gaston, Patrick_H_Lauke, smaug

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


* Patrick to merge the event and init definitions...
* Patrick to consider tweaking introduction/abstract...



# Patrick to merge the event and init definitions...

(Olli mentioned that it's Canada Day, which is why Google folks aren't here)

Patrick: just before our call, I did a very naive "smushing together" of 
the mouse init and mouse interface, ditto for wheel init and wheel 
interface, to follow our structure from pointer events

[Group looks at the changes from w3c/pointerevents#648 - the first naive 
attempt at harmonising spec]

Patrick: what do we do with the event definitions. mouse and wheel have 
those big tables (with lots of redundant info), while pointer events 
uses prose

Patrick: prose is perhaps a bit too vague in places

Olli: yes, for instance for pointerenter it doesn't bubble, but it only 
mentions it in passing in a note

Patrick: should we trim the tables for now? if so which rows we want to keep

Olli: bubble, cancelable, composed

Olli: context seems to apply to all events ...

Patrick: so remove it, but do we need to keep it "somewhere"?

ACTION: Patrick to continue in the harmonisation branch - introduce 
cut-down version of the tables for pointer events, cut out "unnecessary" 
rows from mouse and wheel



# Patrick to consider tweaking introduction/abstract...

Patrick: no move on that yet, deferring until next meeting

ACTION: Patrick to consider tweaking introduction/abstract to explain 
why mouse and wheel events are in the PE spec (and the first 3rd of the 
spec is devoted to mouse even though it's the PE spec)

Patrick: keeping it short and sweet today. Thank you both. I'll continue 
work in the branch to clean things up



# Summary of action items

* Patrick to continue in the harmonisation branch - introduce cut-down 
version of the tables for pointer events, cut out "unnecessary" rows 
from mouse and wheel

* Patrick to consider tweaking introduction/abstract to explain why 
mouse and wheel events are in the PE spec (and the first 3rd of the spec 
is devoted to mouse even though it's the PE spec)


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Patrick H. Lauke

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Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2026 14:41:44 UTC