W3C Pointer Event spec

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It looks like web community finally seeks for finding a unified scheme for different pointer devices.
http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

I think much of the code here can be reused for making working pointer events for wacom for NPAPI type plugin.

[ZaneA]

Great idea! I wonder what the status of this proposal is in various browsers. I will look into it :)

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I think that it's only available for IE10 on Win8 at this moment, but a polyfill called hand.js already exists (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2013/01/16/hand-js-a-polyfill-for-supporting-pointer-events-on-every-browser.aspx). In my opinion, the pointer event is the right unified approach as for all pointer-like devices (mouse, touch, wacom, kinect, leap motion, or whatever) and browser developers eventually implement the generic interface.
But individual actual device support should take much longer, and especially wacom as we see the company's lack of linux web plugin support. This linux wacom web plugin using NPAPI here will be able to immediately fill the gap.