- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:38:56 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>
[Tab Atkins Jr.:] > > The UA picks the lowest resolution pointer available, right? A Surface > > with its type cover or a laptop with a touch screen have both coarse and > fine pointers. > > We've had similar internal discussion, for what to do if you've got a > laptop with both a touchpad (fine) and a touchscreen (coarse). Our rough > consensus was that the device chooses whichever one it expects the user to > most often use. > I really have no idea how the device would know which one to pick, and that sounds disturbing to me: when the device's expectation changes then my app layout would suddenly reflow? Granted, matching the least precise pointer available implies anything with a touch screen would only ever apply touch-oriented layout and styling; but though those may make somewhat less efficient use of the viewport such UIs work fine with a mouse-like pointer and it seems better than making apps or sites arbitrarily reflow while they're being used...
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