Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?

Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @09:55AM (#9106964)

> Pointer Events is an odd case. It's a Microsoft-backed spec that only Microsoft supports. Apple won't implement it, Google won't, Mozilla's implementation is unfinished.

Google, per the Chrome rep quoted in the article, prefers PE from a technical perspective, and only doesn't support it because it won't be universal because of Apple's resistance.

Unfinished means WIP, it doesn't mean that Mozilla doesn't support it the way Apple doesn't. Apple is the only barrier to adoption here.

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:43PM (#9108143)

> Google, per the Chrome rep quoted in the article, prefers PE from a technical perspective, and only doesn't support it because it won't be universal because of Apple's resistance.

See below: the Chrome team have other (performance) objections.

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Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? by eridius on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:02PM (#9107837)

That could easily just be a justification for not supporting it that sounds better than "we'd rather not support two separate models for touch/mouse events". Especially if they really would rather not support it but feel that they would have to if Apple did jump on board.

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