Category: touch

Touch Devices Should Not Be Judged By Their Size

Front-end developers and web designers live in an insane multi-device reality. A few months ago, the Red Hat UXD team discussed how to design enterprise applications for mobile environments. Sarah and Jenn, my talented colleagues, pointed out that touch devices should not be judged by their size alone.Assumptions ar...

You Can’t Detect A Touchscreen

Stu Cox explains that there are a ton of ways you might think you can get a yes-or-no answer on whether a browser supports touch or not:Width media queries Touch-related DOM events Touch-related APIs Pointer media queriesThe normal refrain around this is “there are devices that are both, so you’d be wro...