Re: [mediaqueries4]Differentiating touchscreen+mouse from touchscreen only scenarios

We think the spec should avoid ambiguities around non-pointer devices---we
were bitten by this during our implementation.

Details: Even though 'pointer', 'any-pointer', 'hover' and 'any-hover'
values are meant for pointing devices only (right?), the spec
    http://dev.w3.org/csswg/mediaqueries-4/#mf-interaction
defines 'pointer' and 'hover' values ambiguously with respect to
inclusion/exclusion of non-pointing input device like keyboards:

A. The 'pointer' value definitions include non-pointing devices, but the
'hover' value definitions don't. These defs use "... primary input
mechanism ..." and "... primary pointing system ..." respectively.

B. The 'any-pointer' and 'any-hover' definitions include non-pointing
devices: "... capabilities of all the input devices ...".

Hope we didn't miss anything in-between.

Mustaq


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
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> On 15 Dec 2014, at 21:54, Mustaq Ahmed <mustaq@google.com> wrote:
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> Update: we are on track to ship 'any-pointer' and 'any-hover' media
> queries in Chrome M41 (
> https://www.chromestatus.com/features/6460705494532096). These are
> already available in Chrome canary builds for testing. Note that we shipped
> 'pointer' and 'hover' media queries in M38.
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> BTW, IE 11 tech preview is also shipping these:
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> https://status.modern.ie/mediaquerieslevel4interactionmediafeaturespointerandhover?term=media%20queries
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> Good to hear, thanks for the update. Any feedback on the feature itself,
> or the way it is specified, based on this implementation?
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> Also, I suppose you wrote some tests in the process of developing this. It
> would be greatly appreciated if you could contribute these to W3C to be
> included in the test suite for media queries 4, to help move the spec along
> the REC track.
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>  - Florian
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> PS: Hi Microsoft, same questions about feedback and tests for you.
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