RFC Pointer events

[syranide]

http://handjs.codeplex.com/

Stumbled across this a few days ago, MS is seemingly pushing for it to become a standard and looking at other solutions/implementations they seem to align. http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

Practically it seems like a great thing to support, even if React doesn't provide a core polyfill. Simply adding support for the events so that users are free to polyfill themselves using a library of their choice seems like a great thing.

I don't mind providing a PR (should be a simple matter) if you agree.

[zpao]

Does #499 cover this? (also cc @joshduck who I think did something here at some point)

[syranide]

@zpao Right, saw that issue and forgot about it apparently. It's basically the same discussion, I guess the difference now is that it's becoming a proper standard, meaning there's no reason to support the prefixed events and with hand.js (or other polyfills) it's actually ready to be used, in all browsers, today. So to me it seems quite straightforward at this point, if we believe it to be the right path.

[sebmarkbage]

Can we close this issue and keep going in #499 ? We should just go ahead and adding these. A lower-level polyfill might be able to take over if we just allow the events to be added.

[plievone]

I don't mind providing a PR (should be a simple matter) if you agree.

@syranide Yes please :)

[syranide]

@sebmarkbage For sure