Should the `click` event be retargeted when a <menuitem> is selected via mousedown-drag-mouseup?

[mfreed7]

This is a mirror issue in the PE repo for openui/open-ui#1312. Happy to discuss here or there, but FWIW I think more of the practical discussion of the menu API will be done there, in OpenUI.

TL;DR: for <menuitem> elements, and perhaps <select>/<option>, it might be good to redefine the target for the synthetic click event so that it's more intuitive for mousedown-drag-mouseup type interactions.

[sanketbhuite]

I think retargeting the synthetic click could make mousedown–drag–mouseup interactions more intuitive, especially for <menuitem>-style components.

From a developer perspective, when users press on one item, drag, and release on another, the expectation is that the final released item becomes the click target — similar to how many native UI menus behave.

Without retargeting, authors may need extra logic to track pointerdown + pointermove + pointerup, which defeats the purpose of a higher-level abstraction.

So retargeting the synthetic click to the item under mouseup seems more consistent and developer-friendly, provided it doesn't break existing pointer capture behavior.