- From: Henrik Andersson <henke@henke37.cjb.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:04:48 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Geoffrey Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. skrev: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com> wrote: >> 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? > I think you should use "I'm gonna use touch events" as the trigger here. > > If you really insist on using MQs as a proxy, tho, it's actually the > (hover) query you want. If you can't hover, that means you're gonna > have to poke at the screen with *something* to activate things, and > that thing will obscure what it's poking at least a little. > > ~TJ > > Not quite. There are hover enabled pens.
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