TPE DOM/Pointer events

Introduction

This project is to support events and related interfaces for handling hardware pointer input from various devices including a mouse, pen, touchscreen, etc. There's implementation prefed-off on Nightly due to lack of stability. We will start from enabling the feature for Desktop again on Nightly then on Fennec.

References:

• Pointer events spec
• dev-blink intent-to-implement
• Mozilla discussion thread

Main Members

Engineers: Stone Shih (main contact), Ben Hsu

QA contact: Alexandru Simonca (:asimonca)

Meeting Minutes & Project Status

Sync-up meeting gdoc or etherpad

Test plan and test cases

• QA Test plan wiki page
• List of websites using PointerEvents
• Test cases

Roadmap

PHASE 1 - Enabling PE on Nightly

• Milestone 1 - support major Pointer events behaviors on Windows Desktop with Pref-off on Nightly 52
  • Tasks
    • Fix crashes and critical issues breaking existing mouse and touch experiences
    • Automation test enhancement
  • Schedule
    • 2016 Q3
    • Checking point: 2016 8E
• Milestone 2 - To enable PE on Windows on Nightly 53 <WE ARE HERE!>
  • Acceptance criteria
    • Web-platform-tests all pass
    • No regression on existing mouse and touch experiences
    • To work with QA
  • Tasks
    • QA perform manual tests upon major websites on Windows Desktop
    • Fix blocking issues
      • High-level click events
      • Compatibility mouse events
      • Implement pointer capture behaviors
      • Fire boundary events
      • After fixing blocking issues reported by QA, we plan to invite community members to test the feature widely.
  • Schedule - Target riding Firefox 53 Nightly

• Milestone 3 - To enable PE on Linux & Android on Nightly
  • Acceptance criteria
    • Web-platform-tests all pass
    • No regression on existing mouse and touch experiences
    • To work with QA
  • Tasks
    • WidgetPointer arch proposal discussion - Investigate Linux, Fennec, Windows
    • Fix mouse and touch integration bugs on Linux
    • Fix mouse and touch integration bugs on Android
  • Schedule
    • Checking point: 2016 9E (proposal review)

• Milestone 4 - To support Pen features
  • Acceptance criteria - TBD
  • Tasks
    • Integrate stylus on Windows, Linux, and Android
    • Add PEv2 stylus attributes
  • Schedule - TBD

PHASE 2 - Shipping PE to Desktop & Fennec release

• Acceptance criteria - to clarify
• Open questions ?
• Tasks
  • Add Telemetry
• Target ship date: TBD (2017)

Project Dashboard

Meta Bugs

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
822898	[meta] Implement pointer events	P3	RESOLVED
1166347	Enabling pointer events in Nightly builds	P3	RESOLVED

2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Milestone_1 Bugs & Progress

Implementation part: Miscelleous & Crashes fixing - DONE

Full Query

ID	Summary	Status	Target milestone	Resolution	Assigned to	Depends on	Blocks
1258808	Pointer event ids are always 0	RESOLVED	mozilla51	FIXED	Ben Hsu [:HoPang]		1166347

1 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Testing refinement:

Full Query

ID	Summary	Status	Target milestone	Resolution	Assigned to	Depends on	Blocks
1299199	[Pointer Events] Replace all `sendPointerEvent()` with `sendMouseEvent()` in testcases.	RESOLVED	mozilla51	FIXED	Ben Hsu [:HoPang]		1302034, 1299024
1299202	[Pointer Events] Make sure only `mousemove`, `mousedown`, `mouseup` and `mousecancel` used in testcases	RESOLVED	---	DUPLICATE	Ben Hsu [:HoPang]		1299024
1299209	[Pointer Events] PointerId should be covered in PE test automation.	RESOLVED	mozilla53	FIXED	Ben Hsu [:HoPang]		1299024
1299215	[Pointer Events] Decouple `button` and `buttons` when synthesizing Widget Events.	RESOLVED	---	DUPLICATE	Ben Hsu [:HoPang]		1299024
1302297	[Pointer Events] Correct the `button` values used by current mochitest wrappers.	RESOLVED	mozilla53	FIXED	Ben Hsu [:HoPang]		1299024

5 Total; 0 Open (0%); 5 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Milestone_2 Bugs & Progress

Full Query

ID	Summary	Status	Target milestone	Resolution	Assigned to	Depends on	Blocks
1258804	FireFox crashes on a pointerevent capturing scenario	RESOLVED	mozilla51	FIXED	Ming-Chou Shih [:stone]		1166347, 1284185, 1292437, 1294335
1290805	Attributes of gotpointercapture and lostpointercapture should be the same as the pointer event that causes them	RESOLVED	---	DUPLICATE	Ming-Chou Shih [:stone]		1292437
1293174	[Pointer Event] Implement implicit pointer capture for touch	RESOLVED	mozilla52	FIXED	Ming-Chou Shih [:stone]		1292437, 1669729
1293176	[Pointer Event] Suppress boundary events when captured	RESOLVED	---	DUPLICATE	Ming-Chou Shih [:stone]		1292079
1294335	[Pointer Event] Refine setPointerCapture / releasePointerCapture to follow the algorithm defined in the spec	RESOLVED	mozilla51	FIXED	Ming-Chou Shih [:stone]	1258804	1292437

5 Total; 0 Open (0%); 5 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);