On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 6/16/26 11:21 a.m., Chromestatus wrote:
>
> *Contact emails*
> [email protected]
>
> *Specification*
> https://w3c.github.io/pointerevents/#dom-wheelevent-momentum
>
> *Summary*
> The wheel events on many native platforms simulate scrolling inertia: the
> events continue to fire for a while after the user has lifted the finger
> from the trackpad after a fling interaction. This feature exposes a
> momentum attribute in wheel events which is true only for those simulated
> events, differentiating them from the events fired during the physical
> scroll interaction. This lets web developers ignore fling events or
> customize rich fling effects.
>
> *Blink component*
> Blink>Input
> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EInput%22>
>
> *Web Feature ID*
> Missing feature
>
> *Motivation*
> *No information provided*
>
> *Initial public proposal*
> *No information provided*
>
> *TAG review*
> This feature is too small and non-controversial to justify a TAG review.
>
> *TAG review status*
> Not applicable
>
> *Goals for experimentation*
> None
>
> *Risks*
>
>
> *Interoperability and Compatibility*
> *No information provided*
>
> *Gecko*: Positive (
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pointer-events/2026JanMar/0148.html#:~:text=smaug%3A%20just%20having%20a%20flag%20should%20be%20easy.%20we%27ll%20just%20have%20to%20do%20%0Asomething%20on%20linux)
>  Supported
> the feature during PEWG meeting on 2026-03-11.
>
> *WebKit*: No signal
>
> Can we file real vendor position issues for Gecko and WebKit (but, nice to
> see the comments from Olli)?
>

Filed standard position requests:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1425 and
https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/688


> *Web developers*: Positive (
> https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/587) See the dev discussion
> and also many thumbs-up emojis.
>
> *Other signals*:
>
> *WebView application risks*
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
> *No information provided*
>
>
> *Debuggability*
> *No information provided*
>
> *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
> Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?*
> No
>
> *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?*
> No
>
>
> *Flag name on about://flags*
> *No information provided*
>
> *Finch feature name*
> WheelEventMomentum
>
> *Rollout plan*
> Will ship enabled for all users
>
> *Requires code in //chrome?*
> False
>
> *Tracking bug*
> https://crbug.com/40704952
>
> *Estimated milestones*
> Shipping on desktop 151
> Shipping on Android 151
> Shipping on WebView 151
>
> *Anticipated spec changes*
>
> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
> *No information provided*
>
> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status*
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6631012282007552?gate=5864164607262720
>
> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status
> <https://chromestatus.com>.
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