Pointer Checker
Diagnose a pointer from move-event timestamps, reporting polling rate and capabilities.
Description
Diagnose a pointer from move-event timestamps, reporting polling rate and capabilities.
Pointer Checker: Diagnose a pointer from move-event timestamps, reporting polling rate and capabilities.
When to use Pointer
Use this check to inspect a browser, device, network, permission, media, or input capability directly in the current runtime before relying on it in another workflow.
- Pointer probe
- Pointer probe supplied by the surface.
How Pointer works
Diagnose a pointer from move-event timestamps, reporting polling rate and capabilities. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Verdict
- Overall pointer diagnosis.
- Polling rate (Hz)
- Measured event rate in hertz.
- Polling class
- Nearest common polling-rate label.
- Buttons
- Set bits in the reported button mask.
- Touch points
- Reported maximum touch points.
- Issues
- Stable machine-facing degradation codes.
Limitations and assumptions
- Results describe the current browser session and can change with permissions, privacy controls, hardware, drivers, network path, power state, or browser updates. Unsupported or withheld information is not proof that the underlying capability is absent.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Repeat the check in the browser and device that will actually be used, then confirm important behavior with the relevant operating-system or network diagnostics. Avoid granting permissions that are unnecessary for the test.
References
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Pointing device — Wikipedia contributors
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