PEP

Are you talking about Pointer Events versus Touch Events? Edge supports both (and has for some time). IE supports only Pointer Events. (There is a polyfill for Touch Events on IE: https://github.com/WebReflection/ie-touch) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_event... https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_eve... Both are W3C recommended standards. Pointer Events has more capabilities, and an easier abstraction for multi-modal input (ie, mouse and touch, or touch and pen). So I often see Pointer Events recommended over Touch Events if you can use Pointer Events. (React recently moved to recommending Pointer Events, as one example.) The big reason not to use Pointer Events is that Safari/WebKit has lagged far behind on Pointer Event adoption (it is finally in experimenta

You mean like this one? https://github.com/jquery/PEP/ Was built by the Polymer team before Chrome deprioritized Pointer Events the first time round, and transferred to the JQuery Foundation thereafter.

I completely disagree. Apple supported the defacto standard for handling touch input (http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/) before any other browser vendor, and Google followed them very quickly. The w3c decision to abandon touch events and pursue pointer events was only after Apple submitted to the w3c patent advisory group that they held patents on the standard (with no indication of requiring royalty -- and no indication of going after other browser vendors supporting touch events such as Google). Furthermore, what is a pointer event going to do on an Apple or Google platform? Apple devices only support touch and mice as of this writing -- why do they need pointer events, which adds things such as stylus support with tilt? What would be the purpose of implementing that? Same goes for Google, only Android products I can think of with styl