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| Date | 2011-10-10 17:42 +1100 |
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| 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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