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Pointer events

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DOM JS API

This specification integrates various inputs from mice, touchscreens, and pens, making separate implementations no longer necessary and authoring for cross-device pointers easier. Not to be mistaken with the unrelated "pointer-events" CSS property.

Further reading:

  1. Can I use page for: Pointer events
  2. Implementation of Pointer Events in IE10
  3. Hand.js, the polyfill for browsers only supporting Touch Events
  4. Article & tutorial
  5. Abstraction library for pointer events
  6. PEP: Pointer Events Polyfill
  7. Pointer Event API on MDN
  8. Bugzilla@Mozilla: Bug 822898 - Implement pointer events