Re: [w3c/touch-events] Specify what browsers do on non-touch devices (#64)

This behavior is more of a workaround to circumvent badly coded sites that make the naive "if touch events, it must be a mobile/touch-only device, so we only bind to touch events and not to mouse or click" approach that seems to be so pervasive.

In fact, some desktop browsers on laptops/computers with touchscreen don't expose touch events at all in some cases, as too many sites then also assume touch-only and break mouse/trackpad/keyboard interaction.

Not sure if codifying this user agent heuristic/self-defence mechanism in the spec itself would help solve the fundamental problem of sites having crappy code, or if codifying it would make sites even more justified in their approach (which would still fail in the desktop scenario).

Maybe adding an informative (non-normative) note could be useful nonetheless? /cc @RByers 

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