Request: Touch identification

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Request: Touch identification

knider opened this issue 7 years ago · 4 comments

Can we have a method that detects whether the browser supports Touch or not? I'd like to be able to identify smaller devices such as Microsoft's surface that can be used like a tablet but are not identified as a tablet.

Answer 1 · 2017-01-27T17:03:04.000Z

How would you propose we detect this from the useragent string?

Answer 2 · 2017-01-27T18:49:07.000Z

What about just detecting the Surface as a tablet?

Answer 3 · 2017-01-27T19:26:21.000Z

@andrewmoise that sounds good to me.

Answer 4 · 2017-01-27T20:14:56.000Z

I don't think the surface is truly defined as a tablet. Use this:
ENV{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ m/Touch/