User interaction events

I'd like to ask the TAG for help in ensuring user interaction events
get better defined. There appears to be some pushback from editors and
some general reluctance as to what needs to be done with regards to
properly defining the flow of a thing happening on the system, to one
or more events getting dispatched on a node in a tree.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2014JanMar/0064.html has
some notes on what it would take to upgrade UI events in general. We
need to tie together the system UI tasks (not really defined), a
browsing context's event loop, hit testing (undefined), CSS box tree
(not really defined), the DOM tree the boxes point to (mapping highly
unclear), and the sequence of events that end up being dispatched (not
clear).

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pointer-events/2014AprJun/0012.html
has an example of me trying to persuade the editor of the Pointer
Events specification to do a better job of this. In particular at the
moment the interaction between pointer events and mouse events is less
than ideal.


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Received on Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:40:31 UTC