We had enabled Pointer Events on the nightly builds for a while and resolved 
the major blockers to ship it. Although there are some bugs ongoing and some 
spec issues under discussion, we think they don't block the functionalities of 
Pointer Events and plan to ship it within the next few weeks.

Related Bugs: 
Bug 822898 - Implement pointer events

Link to standard: 
https://w3c.github.io/pointerevents/ 

Platform coverage:
All desktop platforms

Target release:
Hopefully, we can ride the trains of FF58.

Preference behind which this is implemented:
dom.w3c_pointer_events.enabled 

Do other browser engines implement this? 
Edge and Chrome already ship it. 

Tests: WPT 

Security & Privacy Concerns:
Pointer events expose more attributes to users, which may be used for 
fingerprinting.

Next: 
There are some spec issues under discussion, and we'll revise the 
implementation once the spec is updated. Regarding fingerprinting, we probably 
could hide some attributes when privacy.resistFingerprinting is turned on. Need 
further discussion and implement it.
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