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Re:Blink won’t implement pointer events by matthewmacleod on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:28PM (#8182884)
Touch events for instance are a still proprietary API.

It's a W3C recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/

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Re:Blink won’t implement pointer events by aikah on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:34PM (#8182921)
AFAIK there was a issue with Apple holding some copyrights on the api,might have changed.
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Re:Blink won’t implement pointer events by rbyers on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:41PM (#8183249)
There was a delay, but we worked past it. The web would definitely be a better place if Apple would participate in the input API standardization process though.
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