Pointer Events for Mobile

[jgraham]

Description

Since 2023 Interop has had a focus area "Pointer and Mouse Events" dedicated to improving the interoperability of mouse input events. However we have not yet been able to tackle the issue of other pointer input types due to the lack of support in some desktop browsers, and the lack of mobile testing support in web-platform-tests.

Interoperable support for basic input methods is a foundational requirement for a good user and developer experience in interactive web applications.

With the ongoing investigation work to support mobile testing, expanding our input event testing to cover non-mouse events may now be possible.

Tests

https://wpt.fyi/results/pointerevents?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=touch
https://wpt.fyi/results/touch-events?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=touch

Specification

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

Additional Signals

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[mustaqahmed]

Thanks, it will be great to see solid Interop progress on non-mouse input!

One suggestion: the list currently has 50+ tests, perhaps a smaller goal for 2025 would more practical? FYI @gsnedders.