Note contextmenu, click, and auxclick are PointerEvents though Firefox and Safari don't follow the standard

[danielhjacobs]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/contextmenu_event

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Event type

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

According to w3c/pointerevents#317, the "correct" event type is PointerEvent. However, while Chromium browsers follow the new standard, Firefox and Safari do not. The Event Type should be noted as being PointerEvent, but with a clear obvious disclaimer that this is not the case on Firefox or Safari. Currently, that disclaimer is hidden in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/contextmenu_event#browser_compatibility.

What did you expect to see?

The event type that matches the spec, but with an obvious disclaimer that the spec is not followed by Firefox or Safari.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

• Change the type of click and auxclick to PointerEvent w3c/uievents#259
• Change the type of click, auxclick, and contextmenu to PointerEvent w3c/pointerevents#317
• Change click and contextmenu event types to PointerEvent whatwg/html#5324
• HTMLElement.click() fires PointerEvent whatwg/html#6126
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675847
• https://webkit.org/b/218665

Do you have anything more you want to share?

This also applies to:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/click_event
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/auxclick_event

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• Folder: en-us/web/api/element/contextmenu_event
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/contextmenu_event
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/element/contextmenu_event/index.md
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• Document last modified: 2023-07-03T10:10:32.000Z