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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jun 2016
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Add command line switch to make pointer events enabled by default

Project Member Reported by rbyers@chromium.org, Jun 20 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version       : 53.0.2756.0

We want a command-line switch which can be used to explicitly enable pointer events support.  Technically you can do this today with --enable-blink-features=PointerEvent but this has two drawbacks:
 - Causes a yellow warning bar about untrusted "--enable-blink-features" switch
 - Can't then be disabled by the user in chrome://flags (the command line switch appears to take precedence over the chrome://flags entry).

So I suggest a new switch which just makes the "default" value of the chrome://flags entry mean "enabled, something like --pointer-events-default-enabled.
 

Comment 1 by mustaq@chromium.org, Jun 21 2016

Status: Started (was: Assigned)

Comment 2 by mustaq@chromium.org, Jun 22 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Started)
We don't need a new flag for this, instead use "--enable-features=PointerEvent". This already has the right set of properties: shows no warning bar, and can be disabled through chrome://flags too.

Comment 3 by rbyers@chromium.org, Jun 22 2016

Oh awesome, thanks Mustaq!  I forgot we were using Chrome's '--enable-features' system here, not just Blink's '--enable-blink-features'.  I can confirm that Chrome can be run with --enable-features=PointerEvent and have the desired properties (it shows as 'default' still in chrome://flags, and setting it to disabled indeed overrides what was specified on the command line).  So we already have everything we need without having to add a new switch.

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