Firefox Nightly Now Supports W3C Pointer Events

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox Nightly Now Supports W3C Pointer Events

Mozilla has added support for the Pointer Events specification to the newest Firefox Nightly builds...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-Pointer-Events

[uid313]

I mostly want to see Wayland support.

But also HTML5 input types are sorely missing, such as date, time, and date-time.

[Saverios]

I mostly want to see Wayland support.

But also HTML5 input types are sorely missing, such as date, time, and date-time.

Totally agree. Even the new Edge browser bundled with Windowz 10 has a great date widget for the date type input. It doesn't really work (at least it didn't in my case, the input field was not filled out), but it is really easy to use. Firefox just gives a text field and I had to resort to JavaScript's datepicker widget to get the job done.

I would have thought they would have implemented at least basic support for this type by now.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Unimpressed so far. Get the new engine completed.

[wargames]

If it was not for the fact that Firefox is the only major browser that respects my privacy, I would have ditched it altogether.

[Veerappan]

Totally agree. Even the new Edge browser bundled with Windowz 10 has a great date widget for the date type input. It doesn't really work (at least it didn't in my case, the input field was not filled out), but it is really easy to use. Firefox just gives a text field and I had to resort to JavaScript's datepicker widget to get the job done.

I would have thought they would have implemented at least basic support for this type by now.

Agreed.

At work we have to support IE8+ and latest Chrome/Safari/Firefox... Soon, we'll be supporting latest version of each browser (yay for dumping IE8, IE9, and IE10 all at once). Firefox's date input is sorely lacking here... although we'll probably still keep using the jQuery-UI datepicker widget for UI consistency anyway.

[uid313]

I would have thought they would have implemented at least basic support for this type by now.

Yeah, there is no support at all. Not only have they not implemented a widget, they haven't even bothered making it simply validate against a regex.