[mediaqueries] visibility past coarse pointers

One thing that's come up when thinking about design approaches
recently is about the necessity to position content such that it isn't
obscured when using a touch screen.

Imagine a graph which on a desktop shows a label for the current
position giving the raw value on hover adjacent to the cursor. Now, on
mobile, we can do this using touch events instead of hover. *However*,
it doesn't make sense to show the label adjacent to the touch location
because it'll be largely obscured by the pointing device.

I'm unconvinced it really makes sense to use pointer: coarse for this,
though maybe it can be implied that any coarse pointer will obscure
content?

/Geoffrey

Received on Thursday, 3 March 2016 13:58:47 UTC