An event to detect the capabilities of a pointer device have changed when the user switches between devices.
Consider a Touchscreen laptop with pen support, a mouse and a trackpad; A user may switch between these frequently.
Naming could be 'onPointerDeviceChangeoronPointerChange`.
Currently, to detect the capabilities of a device the code needs to listen to one of two types of pointer-events:
One that fires frequently, e.g.pointerMove. Too frequent, requires additional overhead to ignore repeated calls for the same input type.
One that fires at the point of interaction, e.g. 'pointerdown`. May be detected too late to switch input affordance changes.
It is unclear if events such as pointerover or pointerenter will refire if a user were to switch between mouse, trackpad or touch.
An event to detect the capabilities of a pointer device have changed when the user switches between devices. Consider a Touchscreen laptop with pen support, a mouse and a trackpad; A user may switch between these frequently. Naming could be 'onPointerDeviceChange
oronPointerChange`.Currently, to detect the capabilities of a device the code needs to listen to one of two types of pointer-events:
pointerMove. Too frequent, requires additional overhead to ignore repeated calls for the same input type.It is unclear if events such as
pointeroverorpointerenterwill refire if a user were to switch between mouse, trackpad or touch.