The Pointer Events specification, an API for Web developers to handle touch, mouse, and pen inputs in Web applications, has been published as a Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium. This is ...

The W3C recently moved Microsoft's proposed Pointer Events spec to Last Call Working Draft. To help developers get up to speed, the IEBlog has published an overview of Pointer Events. Microsoft has ...

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Pointer Events is a useful standard for handling touch, mouse, keyboard, voice, pen, and any other kind of input you want. The very different handling of it by Microsoft, Apple, and Google reveals ...

We all have our issues with Chrome. But it looks like one of those issues is finally going to be addressed. According to a Google Group post, it appears that Google is going to be addressing the ...

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Smoother scrolling is coming to Chrome, as Google will integrate Microsoft's Pointer Events API into a future version of the browser. To say that Google and Microsoft haven't had the best working ...

Google has relented in its efforts to improve its own scrolling APIs for Chrome and has instead stated that it will adopt Microsoft's Pointer Events API used in Internet Explorer. When you purchase ...

Google and Microsoft aren’t exactly friends, but the two companies are working closely to add some Microsoft magic to Chrome that could improve the browser’s scrolling issues—especially on mobile.

While I am not a programmer, I don't think it would be hard to add both features in all browsers. Whichever one is the best one will eventually win hopefully without ...