Proposed Advancement of Pointer Events Level 3 to W3C Recommendation

Today, the W3C Team proposed advancing Pointer Events Level 3 to W3C Recommendation. This specification was published by the Pointer Events Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation Draft on 22 May 2026. The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen. For compatibility with existing mouse-based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for other pointer device types.

This revision includes new features: altitudeAngle, azimuthAngle, pointerrawupdate event, associated coalesced events, and built-in predicted events. This revision of Pointer Events is intended to supersede Pointer Events Level 2.