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Design doc for Automatic PointerInterceptors #179806
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Tracks the design and RFC for Automatic PointerInterceptors on Flutter Web:
- RFC (active): docs(rfc): add RFC 420.0000 - Automatic PointerInterceptors on the web rfc#39 (RFC 420.0000: Automatic PointerInterceptors on the web) — supersedes the initial Google Doc.
- Implementation umbrella: ☔️ Automatic Pointer Interceptors for Platform Views on Web #190574 (☔️ Automatic Pointer Interceptors for Platform Views on Web).
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mdebbar commentedon Jan 27, 2026
Once automatic PointerInterceptor is implemented, it will make issues like #144354 obsolete.
flutter-triage-bot commentedon Jun 2, 2026
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harryterkelsen commentedon Jun 3, 2026
This is still planned
flutter-triage-bot commentedon Oct 7, 2026
This design doc is assigned to @harryterkelsen but has had no recent status updates. If the proposal has been deferred, please consider unassigning thes issue. Alternatively, if the design doc has been abandoned, please close the issue. This allows people to have a clearer picture of what work is actually planned. Thanks!
harryterkelsen commentedon Oct 28, 2026
Closing this design doc issue in favor of umbrella issue #190574 ("☔️ Automatic Pointer Interceptors for Platform Views on Web").
The design proposal has been completed and accepted. Instead of enabling semantics by default, the framework and Web Engine use a dedicated, platform-view-gated hit-region pass with
<flt-hit-test-proxy>DOM interleaving. Implementation is underway and tracked in #190574.Add real WebDriver pointer actions to package:integration_test on the…
harryterkelsen commentedon Oct 29, 2026
Reopening to track the RFC for this design, which supersedes the Google Doc: flutter/rfc#39