When "mouse wheeling" occurs, the implementation must dispatch a mouseomniwheel event implementing the following interface: interface MouseOmniWheelEvent : MouseEvent { readonly attribute long wheelDeltaX; readonly attribute long wheelDeltaY; readonly attribute long wheelDeltaZ; void initMouseOmniWheelEventNS(in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString typeArg, in boolean canBubbleArg, in boolean cancelableArg, in views::AbstractView viewArg, in long detailArg, in long screenXArg, in long screenYArg, in long clientXArg, in long clientYArg, in unsigned short buttonArg, in EventTarget relatedTargetArg, in DOMString modifiersList, in long wheelDeltaX, in long wheelDeltaY, in long wheelDeltaZ); }; wheelDeltaX is a number indicating the horizontal distance (positive means rotated to the right, negative means rotated to the left). wheelDeltaY is a number indicating the vertical distance (positive means rotated away from user or to the right, negative means rotated towards user or to the left). wheelDeltaZ, included for future extensibility, is a number indicating the distance along a third unspecified axis (positive means rotated away from the user, means rotated towards user). At the present time, implementors may use whatever modality is best suited to the task, such as the the use of the wheel in conjunction with a control key. The default value of wheelDeltaX, wheelDeltaY and wheelDeltaZ is 0. UIEvent.detail must always be 0. This event includes both scroll deltas. The default action of this event is to dispatch a mousewheel event if the y delta is non-zero. Besides that, its default action is to do whatever platform conventions suggest for the wheeling behavior. The mousewheel event implements the following interface: interface MouseWheelEvent : MouseEvent { readonly attribute long wheelDelta; void initMouseWheelEventNS(in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString typeArg, in boolean canBubbleArg, in boolean cancelableArg, in views::AbstractView viewArg, in long detailArg, in long screenXArg, in long screenYArg, in long clientXArg, in long clientYArg, in unsigned short buttonArg, in EventTarget relatedTargetArg, in DOMString modifiersList, in long wheelDelta); }; If the mousewheel event is cancelled, only the default action for vertical wheeling is cancelled. wheelDelta A number indicating the distance, measured as the number of "clicks" the wheel has been rotated. A positive value indicates that the wheel has been rotated away from the user (or in a right-hand manner on horizontally aligned devices) and a negative value indicates that the wheel has been rotated towards the user (or in a left-hand manner on horizontally aligned devices). The default value of the wheelDelta attribute is 0. A "click" is defined to be a unit of rotation. On some devices this is a finite physical step. On devices with smooth rotation, a "click" becomes the smallest reported amount of rotation. XXX: What about UIEvent.detail? For both mouseomniwheel and mousewheel, MouseEvent.relatedNode must indicate the element over which the pointer is located, or null if there is no such element (in the case where the device does not have a pointer, but does have a wheel).