Re: Phone as a desktop

Yet another example of where the naive "touch OR mouse/kbd" doesn't hold 
true. 
https://medium.com/@patrick_h_lauke/worth-noting-that-the-it-supports-touch-events-so-it-must-be-a-touch-only-device-problem-is-not-24f8c927d579

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On 03/05/2017 12:46, Alastair Campbell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> Interesting post from Samsung on their new “Desktop Experience Mode”
> (DeX) available with the flagship S8 phone:
>
> https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/samsung-dex-brings-a-new-dimension-to-the-mobile-web-f80d7edcab29
>
>
>
> Key things:
>
> -          You dock your phone, then use a standard monitor / keyboard /
> mouse.
>
> -          Progressive web apps (i.e. mobile optimised) work well in
> this setup, e.g. twitter lite <https://mobile.twitter.com/>.
>
> -          They ran some testing on the top 1000 sites for things that
> broke.
>
>
>
> “We looked out for anything which may be broken by a website thinking it
> is running on a mobile browser, when the user is really using a mouse
> and keyboard:
>
> -          Mouse Event Handling
>
> -          Cursor Shape
>
> -          Desktop format layout
>
> -          Correct Handling of Keyboard Input
>
>
> Unfortunately 5% of websites failed these tests. This is usually where
> there has been a mismatch between feature detection and the actual
> features. ‘/We found that some sites are assuming that “if this web
> browser supports touch events, then it shouldn’t support mouse events at
> the same time.” e.g. Apple.com and Wells Fargo./’”
>
>
>
> Sounds like good supporting information for some of the SCs…
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> -Alastair
>
>
>
> --
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>
>
> www.nomensa.com <http://www.nomensa.com/> / @alastc
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