https://peertube.lagbag.com/videos/watch/0cd15c71-7eb2-456d-8d5d-d58247155720 Almost everyone defaults to using mouse events such as mousedown and mouseup, but this is not ideal. Mouse events do not include things like touch and pen interactions and duplicating all your mouse events into touch events is not ideal either. This is where pointer events come in. Pointer events work for all types of input (mouse, touch, pen, etc.) and best of all they include a few additional features and methods that make doing complex interactions incredibly easy. 📚 Materials/References: Touch Events Video: https://youtu.be/TaPdgj8mucI Event Listener Crash Course Video: https://youtu.be/XF1_MlZ5l6M 🌎 Find Me Here: My Blog: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com My Courses: https://courses.webdevsimplified.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WebDevSimplified Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified Discord: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:16 - Pointer Event Basics 09:10 - Pointer Capturing #PointerEvents #WDS #JavaScript Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:53:21 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.lagbag.com https://peertube.lagbag.com/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://peertube.lagbag.com/videos/watch/0cd15c71-7eb2-456d-8d5d-d58247155720 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.lagbag.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.