- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:03:54 +0000
- To: public-touchevents@w3.org
On 22/12/2016 20:40, Rick Byers wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Olli Pettay <olli@pettay.fi
> <mailto:olli@pettay.fi>> wrote:
[...]
> `if ("TouchEvent" in window)` is one way to detect the feature (IMO
> the right one even), though not sure how often
> that is used.
>
> Right, hopefull that's what people are relying on to detect support for
> TouchEvents, and using the other common patterns (mainly "'ontouchstart'
> in window" just as a hack to detect mobile devices).
If I'm understanding this right, `if("TouchEvent" in window)` will now
always return true then (even without touchscreen)? So if devs are using
that particular sniff in a misguided "if it's true, it means there's
touch, so I can just listen to touch" their sites will still now
potentially fail for mouse users all the time (not just when there's an
additional touchscreen present)?
P
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