The 'click' event is a mouse event which fires after both the mousedown and mouseup events have fired.
Now pointer event has a broader use case, so I wonder if there is a corresponding 'click' event for pointer event also?
Thanks. Andy
As to the question: Is there a pointer event that's equivalent to the click event?
The answer is no.
As to the question: Does a pointer press dispatch a click event?
Answering that may take some testing.
Using a little test page that reports every pointer event and click event, I obtained the following events for a single finger press on an iPhone:
16:01:45.416 - pointerover - width: 48.5, height: 48.5
16:01:45.417 - pointerenter - width: 48.5, height: 48.5
16:01:45.418 - pointerdown - width: 48.5, height: 48.5
16:01:45.601 - pointerup - width: 0.0, height: 0.0
16:01:45.602 - pointerout - width: 0.0, height: 0.0
16:01:45.602 - pointerleave - width: 0.0, height: 0.0
16:01:45.636 - click - width: NaN, height: NaN
(the width and height values report the size of the pointer tip, which in this case is a finger)
So it seems that at least on an iPhone, a click event is dispatched with a finger press.