From HTML5DevConf: Pointer Events interoperability public demo of Firefox build integrating MS Open Tech’s contribution

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Today, at the HTML5 Developers Conference, Microsoft demonstrated a build of Mozilla Firefox supporting Pointer Events. This Nightly build integrates Microsoft Open Technologies’ contribution to the Mozilla open source project to add support for Pointer Events, the new W3C specification to handle multiple input types in Web apps and sites. In his talk, Jacob Rossi, Program Manager in the Internet Explorer team, presented the steady progress toward interoperable support for Pointer Events through standardization at W3C, and highlighted MS Open Tech’s contributions to open source projects WebKit, Blink and Gecko.

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