Pointer Events for Mobile

[jgraham]

Description

Interop has included a focus area for mouse events since 2023, and this has been effective at improving interop in this foundational layer of the platform. However many of the same challenges exist for pointer events originating from touch inputs. So far we have been unable to include these in Interop due to the lack of touch support on all desktop platforms, and the lack of mobile support in testing infrastructure.

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

Specification

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

web-feature

pointer-events

Test Links

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

Additional Signals

No response

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Feature pointer-events

• ID: pointer-events
• Name: pointer-events
• Description: The pointer-events CSS property sets whether a user can interact with an element using a mouse, touch, or other pointing input device.
• Baseline status: Widely Available
• Docs: pointer-events
• More information: See the web-features explorer

[jakearchibald]

The web feature is incorrect

[dholbert]

@jgraham can you remove the "storage-access-api" part of the test list here? Pretty sure that was a mis-paste at some level. It's not related to pointer events, so it doesn't really belong here; and in any case wpt.fyi shows all browsers passing that test, so it's not a useful thing to include as a part of an interop test list.

[wpt-interop]

Thank you for proposing Pointer Events for Mobile for Interop 2026.

We want to let you know it was not selected to be part of Interop this year.

On behalf of the entire Interop team, thank you for submitting it for consideration. We got many more proposals than we could include in this year's project, necessitating some difficult choices. Please note this should not be taken as a comment on the technology as a whole, or our willingness to consider it for Interop in the future. We appreciate the work you put into your proposal, and would welcome your participation in future rounds of Interop.

Posted on behalf of the Interop team.