[bsimpson]

As someone who's been using Wacom tablets since before the iPad existed, one of the nice things about Pointer Events is that they provide native support for every pointer-based input device. The only way to utilize a tablet on the web before was either

a) through mouse emulation, or

b) with a barely maintained proprietary plugin from Wacom that only worked in JS, at a time when most rich apps were in Flash.

Pressure and tilt on the web will enable a new class of applications that progressively enhance on hardware that's barely been an afterthought until now.