Re: know its ipad

From	David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: know its ipad
Date	2011-10-09 18:35 -0700
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On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:25:31 AM UTC-4, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> On 13/07/2011 4:31 PM, RobG wrote:
> > On Jul 13, 4:29 pm, RobG<rg...@iinet.net.au>  wrote:
> > [...]
> >> You should be testing for touch support, not what the device is.
> >
> > Because I know you're going to ask:
> >
> > Detecting support for event types
> > <URL:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/93e05bc723164080/17d5759265e496fe?lnk=gst&q=detect+touch+support#17d5759265e496fe
> 
> So a browser that supports touch events won't claim to support touch 
> events when the browser is on a device that can't send touch events. Is 
> that true?
> 

No. Chrome on the desktop "supports" touch events, regardless of the hardware.

See the My Library attachTouchListeners add-on. It's a simple example of handling mouse and (single) touch events with a single API.

Only time it's needed is for drag and drop interfaces (a relative rarity on the Web).

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Re: know its ipad David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-10-09 18:35 -0700
  Re: know its ipad dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-09 22:39 -0700
    Re: know its ipad Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-10 17:42 +1100
      Re: know its ipad David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-10-10 21:40 -0700
    Re: know its ipad David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-10-10 21:38 -0700

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