Re: Proposal to specify behavior for terminals without touch hardware from Gregers Gram Rygg on 2011-05-13 (public-webevents@w3.org from April to June 2011)

From: Gregers Gram Rygg <gregersrygg@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:23:33 +0200
To: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>
Cc: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>, "public-webevents@w3.org" <public-webevents@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BANLkTimrpSESc4MdbdOaxSZUT205fd0T7Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, May 13, 2011, Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know why this needs to be mentioned in the Touch Events spec. Detecting "on<event>" in element/window is the preferred method of detection for any event type.

Yes, to detect if the user agent has support for the event, not if the
terminal has the related hardware. The difference is that browsers
with touch implemented should hide the events if the device doesn't
have touch hardware.

Hope that was more clear.

Gregers

Received on Friday, 13 May 2011 13:24:01 UTC