Pointer Events - Gesture support

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The Pointer Events Working Group would like to explore the possibility of adding native gesture support to the web platform. Currently, authors have to rely on third-party solutions, or roll their own gesture recognition from basic principles (tracking individual pointers and analysing their movement to determine if they user is trying to perform a gesture or not).

This feature has been requested various times over the years.

At this stage, we envisage a basic set of gestures such as "swipe", "scale", "rotate" that authors can "listen for" - see https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/636

Goal(s):
We would like to get feedback, ideas, use cases from the community, to help the group make initial design decisions for the API.

Agenda

• Setting the scene - initial considerations/ideas from the group
• Open discussion: what are people's use cases? (in particular, this will help shape what properties should be exposed on the events, what event model makes the most sense to authors, the types of interactions they're most interested in capturing)

Materials:

• Session proposal on GitHub

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