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Pointer Events

Microsoft wrote a spec called Pointer Events API that unifies touch, stylus and mouse inputs, and implemented it in IE11 (partially in IE10). Firefox are implementing it too. After initial enthusiasm from Google, Chrome announced that it won’t support it, after all.

• HTTP 203: Pointer Events – 4 min video in which Jank Architect and Longpoll Lewis explain why Chrome thinks the Pointer Events API smells.
• Jacob Rossi of Microsoft disputes the claims (G+ link, sorry).
• More discussion about the Pointer Events Smell video from @SlexAxton, @davemethvin (jQuery): “It all boils down to ‘Why is Chrome+IE+Firefox not enough for Pointer Events, but Chrome+Firefox enough for Touch Events extensions?'”

Other standards ‘n’ shiz

• Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources – Hixie suggests stuff like <script src=.. needs="previous-script" load-policy="optimistic">
• Building for mobile? Don’t forget that 2G is still “a thing”… a big thing, in fact. says Ilya Grigorik. (Google+ link, sorry)
• Status of Promises in gUM discussion – now gUM is being “moved” to the snappily-named navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia and will use Promises, should “legacy” navigator.getUserMedia continue to use callbacks? Yes, in my opinion – there is a lot of stuff already out there.
• Brum Tech Scene – Stuart Langridge interviews @SusannahGoh of Birmingham Science City about health, data, and innovation. Having just returned from Fronteers conference in Amsterdam, I confirm Susannah’s assertion that stroopwafel is a biscuit made of superglue.
• anonabox : a Tor hardware router to anonymise all net use and bypass censorship, easy to hide/ destroy if the Secret Police/ Mullahs are at your door.

(Last Updated on 28 October 2014)

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