CAcamhenlin·Feb 25, 2015
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
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us support are the Samsung Note series, and I don't think those even support the special features of pointer events (I'm thinking tilt and pressure).
Anyways, if you feel that strongly about it, you can use pointer events, and polyfill them on Apple platforms with this: https://github.com/jquery/PEP
Or you can keep using touch events and polyfill them on to platforms that only support pointer events with this: https://github.com/CamHenlin/TouchPolyfill/ (disclaimer: I helped write this one :) )