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id: "d74a08d2-70ed-40e7-9e1f-056b228db15d"
name: "dispatchEvent MouseEvent and PointerEvent"
micro_summary: "A probe tried synthetic MouseEvent and PointerEvent dispatch on Gmail's star control; the parent finding is that untrusted events fail."
status: "discarded"
see_also: []
scope: "Attempted to dispatch MouseEvent(mousedown/click/mouseup) and PointerEvent on the star element."
discard_reason: "Dispatched MouseEvent (mousedown/click/mouseup) and PointerEvent with proper coordinates. Gmail checks event.isTrusted — synthetic events always have isTrusted=false and are ignored by the star handler."
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