[niftich]

Finally!

'Pointer events' originated at Microsoft, after the W3C effort to standardize Apple's 'Touch events' became uncertain due to patent issues. For a while, despite admitting it's a more elegant spec for unified input, Google were reluctant to add it because Apple wasn't interested [1][2].

Now Google have changed their mind once more and shipped this, making Apple the only major outlier. The pains of shimming these similar-but-different APIs will continue for a bit, but hopefully Apple will make this concession in the end.

[1] https://timkadlec.com/2015/02/apples-web/

[2] https://mobiforge.com/news-comment/who-wants-pointer-events-...

[Klathmon]

>making Apple the only major outlier

That does seem to be a theme with web technologies and Apple recently.

I hope their recent work on Safari 10's compatibility continues.

[pkulak]

How difficult would a TE -> PE library be to build?

[bsimpson]

You mean like this one?

https://github.com/jquery/PEP/

Was built by the Polymer team before Chrome deprioritized Pointer Events the first time round, and transferred to the JQuery Foundation thereafter.

[pkulak]

Good to know. Thanks!

[riskable]

This one has you covered ;)

https://github.com/liftoff/HumanInput

Wrote it myself.