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https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/ https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/events/MouseEvent.cpp&l=225 // MSIE extension - "the object toward which the user is moving the mouse pointer" // MSIE extension - "object from which activation or the mouse pointer is exiting during the event" (huh?) Supported in WebKit and Chromium. Not supported in Gecko. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3966 https://github.com/search?p=1&q=%22event+fromelement%22&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 shows some usage.
The only Mozilla bugs I can find mentioning fromElement or toElement are https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961708 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205244 Mike, is this something you think Gecko should implement?
[1] is the only site known to me that has been broken due to lack of support, and luckily an ex-employee got it fixed really quickly. It doesn't seem to be a huge issue for us -- but if we found more proof that it breaks content doing the same thing Blink and WebKit do seems easy. IIRC when looking at [1], Edge still supports this. [1] <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205244> (I'm so confused by that other report you listed, I'm not sure what they're asking for).
Another site depending on this: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/2929#issuecomment-236309173
Conveniently, Chrome has usage metrics for these 2 properties: * https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/506 * https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/507
Draft of tests for .toElement & .fromElement: https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/pull/4408