[csswg-drafts] [mediaqueries] visibility past coarse pointers

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== [mediaqueries] visibility past coarse pointers ==
>From this mail thread:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2016Mar/0044.html

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@gsnedders said:

One thing that's come up when thinking about design approaches
recently is about the necessity to position content such that it isn't
obscured when using a touch screen.

Imagine a graph which on a desktop shows a label for the current
position giving the raw value on hover adjacent to the cursor. Now, on
mobile, we can do this using touch events instead of hover. *However*,
it doesn't make sense to show the label adjacent to the touch location
because it'll be largely obscured by the pointing device.

I'm unconvinced it really makes sense to use pointer: coarse for this,
though maybe it can be implied that any coarse pointer will obscure
content?

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@tabatkins said: 

I think you should use "I'm gonna use touch events" as the trigger 
here.

If you really insist on using MQs as a proxy, tho, it's actually the
(hover) query you want.  If you can't hover, that means you're gonna
have to poke at the screen with *something* to activate things, and
that thing will obscure what it's poking at least a little.

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Henrik Andersson said:

Not quite. There are hover enabled pens.

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@gsnedders said:

That doesn't work in the case of the Wii browser's massive cursor,
though, does it? (It's been too long since I've used a Wii or anything
else with massive ten-foot cursors…)

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@tabatkins said:

Do you mean that you think you want the "pop it a little distance
away" for a Wii cursor too?  Shouldn't be necessary - it's not that
big.


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Received on Thursday, 27 October 2016 08:01:45 UTC