Scrolling slated to improve on your Android device's Chrome browser

Scrolling is going to be smoother on the Chrome browser on your phone and tablet. That is because Google plans on using Microsoft's Pointer Events API and integrating it into the browser. The Pointer Events API is already used on competing browsers like Opera, Internet Explorer and Firefox and allows interactions with the touch and mouse to be seen as a single event (in Chrome they are seen as two separate events) which provides benefits to users and developers.



One major benefit to both is smoother scrolling. Some of the other browsers that employ Pointer Events like Firefox and IE, run ...