Re: [whatwg/dom] document.createEvent() should maybe not be conditional upon exposure (#952)

I vaguely remember asking before somewhere, but: philosophically, does it not make sense to expose `TouchEvent` (as an API that the browser understands/supports) regardless of presence of an actual touchscreen? Are there other APIs that are simply not exposed (as if the browser didn't understand them / support them at all) in the absence of certain conditions?

And yes, Chrome's selective support for certain properties/calls based on the actual presence of a touchscreen is a hacky workaround to naive "mobile-only" detection that assumed "if there's a touchscreen, then i can just listen to touch events as it's mobile ... no need to use mouse events or keyboard / can just switch the the 'mobile' version of the site / etc"

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