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What version of Firefox supports stylus pressure input on Windows 10 (via pointerEvents API)?

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eriksssss
eriksssss
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Our company's web-based product relies on the pointerEvents API, and specifically the stylus pressure input. It seems in the last year, support has changed for this option... and is very difficult to track down a solution.

It has been suggested that the Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" has caused these issues, but little information exists.

It has also been suggested to use Firefox ESR to gain the functionality back, but so far my stylus' pointerType is detected as "mouse".

I'm using this utility to test input data from my stylus and other pointer inputs. https://evitolins.github.io/pointer-events-debugger/#pointerdown,pointerup,pointermove

Our company's web-based product relies on the pointerEvents API, and specifically the stylus pressure input. It seems in the last year, support has changed for this option... and is very difficult to track down a solution. It has been suggested that the Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" has caused these issues, but little information exists. It has also been suggested to use Firefox ESR to gain the functionality back, but so far my stylus' pointerType is detected as "mouse". I'm using this utility to test input data from my stylus and other pointer inputs. https://evitolins.github.io/pointer-events-debugger/#pointerdown,pointerup,pointermove

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BelFox
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Hi eriksssss,

I found this for you: - https://caniuse.com/#search=pointer - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=822898

Seems like support for this API is being worked on.

Hope this helps, Best regards, BelFox