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Re: know its ipad

Date 2011-10-10 17:42 +1100
From Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: know its ipad
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On 10/10/2011 4:39 PM, dhtml wrote:
> On Oct 9, 6:35 pm, David Mark<dmark.cins...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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...
>>
>>> 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.
>>
> The reason for this:
> groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_thread/thread/
> e7a70a39b22839de/27d60472800eb97a#27d60472800eb97a
>
> Regardless, it is still fallacy to claim that touch events being
> present means that there the user will interact using a touch
> interface (and I made that mistake, too). There may be one or more
> input devices such as mouse, keyboard, or some yet-to-be-invented
> input device.

To me it makes sense that if a device cannot support touch events it 
does not present them.

Andrew Poulos

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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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