- From: Rick Byers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 03:13:21 +0000
- To: public-touchevents@w3.org
I propose we mark the APIs historically used for mobile device detection as deprecated:
- ontouch* members on window, document, Element
- document.createTouch, document.createTouchList (already deprecated)
- document.createEvent("TouchEvent") (not mentioned by the spec at all today)
They should be supported only by mobile devices for legacy web compat reasons. Sites wishing to do real cross-device TouchEvent feature detection should use `if (window.TouchEvent)`. Chrome would then change to [consistently expose these APIs only on mobile and not desktop](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=392584), while otherwise fully supporting TouchEvents on all platforms in all situations (removing our error-prone hardware-detection-on-startup hack).
Thoughts?
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