We are part of the engineering team of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS 
Open Tech, a Microsoft subsidiary; see our initial announcement at 
http://aka.ms/introMSOpenTech). We have developed an initial proof of concept 
of a WebKit implementation of the Pointer Events W3C Working Draft 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/). It is based on a proposal that Microsoft 
initially submitted to the W3C. You can find more details in our blog post at 
http://aka.ms/PointerEventsWebkitPrototypeBlog.

Right now, this is only a very early proof of concept that implements selected 
mouse and touch events. You can find the code as a WebKit patch on our HTML5 
Labs website here: http://aka.ms/PointerEventsWebkitPrototype. We would love to 
have some feedback on the code, work with the WebKit community on a complete 
implementation of whatever final spec will be defined by the W3C Pointer Events 
WG and if the community is interested in our contribution get some advice on 
how/when to submit this patch to the main WebKit trunk.

(For those wondering why we are doing this, we are obviously interested in 
moving forward existing and new input types on the open web and, as the spec 
evolves, maintain interoperability between WebKit and Internet Explorer.)

-- 
Scott Blomquist
Senior Development Engineer
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. 
A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation

Adalberto Foresti
Principal Program Manager
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. 
A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation
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