Working Draft: Pointer Events (Call for Wide Review)

Pointer Events

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-pointerevents3-20241129/

Published by
 Pointer Events Working Group

Abstract

The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, touchscreen, etc. For compatibility with existing mouse based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for other pointer device types.

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/. 

This specification is an update to [PointerEvents2] which was shipped broadly by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. Level 3 includes editorial clarifications and new features that facilitate more use cases, in an effort to enable wider developer and browser adoption. 

This document is ready for wide review. Comments are welcome at any time but most especially before 12 June 2024. 

This document was published by the Pointer Events Working Group as a Working Draft using the Recommendation track.

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by W3C and its Members.

This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

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This document is governed by the 03 November 2023 W3C Process Document.

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