DOM3 Wheel Events

Category: DOM
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 31)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Implementation of the standard DOM Level 3 WheelEvent. Currently Blink implements a non standard mousewheel event with a very similar but incompatible API.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dom3events/raw-file/tip/html/DOM3-Events.html#events-wheelevents
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: In development
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227454

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/wheel

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