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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - CSS and JS Pointer Events

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about pointer events in CSS and JS - what they are, their differences, why you may want to use them, potential downfalls and more! Sanity.io - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get up and running by typing npm i -g @sanity/cli && sanity init in your command line. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Show Notes 3:24 CSS pointer events 10:50 JavaScript pointer events 14:24 What are pointer events 17:56 Browser support Links CSS pointer events JS pointer events Pointer events support in WebKit Pointer events Polyfill Wes’ Javascript 30 Course Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday, Monday, Monday,

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Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

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get workflows,

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break dancing, soft skills, web development,

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the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

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Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Torlinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax.

0:27.0

In this Hays, D. Treat, we're going to be talking all about pointer events in both CSS and JavaScript, which is something you might not know that they are a thing in both

0:36.6

CSS and JavaScript. We're going to be talking a little bit about what and why and what the difference is and why you might

0:42.0

want to use them and sort of, know some of the potential pitfalls downsides any of that good stuff my name is Scott Tulinsky and you are listening to the syntax podcast with me as always is Wes Buss. How you doing Wes?

0:53.6

Hello everybody I'm doing great I'm excited to talk about pointer events.

0:57.4

Yeah. Which I had no idea that they were coming to JavaScript. I knew that there was like a unified

1:04.3

API for doing events, pointer events, but I didn't realize that it was coming so

1:09.6

soon or is already in all of the browser so I'm excited to talk about it.

1:12.8

Yeah, me too.

1:13.8

This is a hasty treat is sponsored by sanity.

1:17.2

Now your back-end data and everything like that it should reflect the type of data that you have on the front

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head as in your data is not standard it's not just a text box and a

1:29.5

a text area and calls it quits with that, your content is typically much more unique and

1:35.3

dynamic than that.

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