[Development] need to handle touch events rather than depending on mouse event synthesis

[Michael Hasselmann]

Hi,

> Wouldn't PointerArea make a bit more sense. MS have also introduced MSPointer in IE10[1] which represents a mouse, finger-touch or stylus. 
> 
> [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/09/20/touch-input-for-ie10-and-metro-style-apps.aspx 

That "hardware agnostic" abstraction layer is a joke, isn't it? It has a
pointerType property and on top of that, pointerType specific
properties. So effectively, they still have different device classes.
Not a too good reference, IMO. I can only imagine what kind of API
consumer code this will produce.

regards,
Michael