Description

This focus area covers the behavior of pointer and mouse interaction with pages, including how they interact with hit testing and scrolling areas. We have decided to explicitly exclude touch and stylus due to lack of WPT testing support across all browsers.

Rationale

Based on the proposed pointer events 2022 focus area we determined that there is a significant interop challenge amongst existing stable input APIs that developers actively struggle with today. Our 2022 investigation produced a list of issues where you can see examples from various sites and frameworks as well as many different browser behaviors on specs that have been well established for years.

Specification

https://w3c.github.io/pointerevents/
https://w3c.github.io/uievents/

Tests

A tentative list of targeted tests is in progress at Interop 2022: Pointer Events Related Issues. Each row represents a particular issue which is actively being triaged and turned into a test if in scope.