Can I recognise (graphic tablet) Pen Pressure in Javascript?

Question

Is there any way to recognise pen pressure using javascript. Preferably I don\'t want to make any use of Flash and try get this done as pure JS.

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Answer 1

Microsoft implemented something called Pointer Events in IE 11. It allows you to access pressure property along with stuff like pen tilt and size of contact geometry.

So far it only works on IE11 (and IE10 with vendor prefixes) but there is a W3C candidate recommendation so maybe it will be standard in future.