Comments on: Detecting touch-based browsing

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:13:28 +0000

Hi Paul,

That doesn’t seem to fire for my iPhone.

The main problem at the moment is that Google Chrome does fire for that event, although moving to ongesturestart has helped for now.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:04:36 +0000

won’t
if(document.documentElement.ontouchmove){
…

}

do the trick?

By: Isaac Goldberg

Isaac Goldberg — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:07:13 +0000

Gregers is correct — the newest version of Chrome now “supports” touch events, and so this script returns that touch is supported on my computer in Chrome, even though there is in indeed no touch support.

By: Gregers Rygg

Gregers Rygg — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:00:12 +0000

If anyone knows a better solution. Please answer my question on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2607248/optimize-website-for-touch-devices

By: Gregers Rygg

Gregers Rygg — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:33:35 +0000

I’ve used a similar object detection test for touch events. You should be aware that it only tests if the browser has support for touch, not the device. There are laptops with touch-screen out in the wild, and Chrome have already started implementing touch support. The latest version of Chrome in the dev channel exposes touch events even though I have a computer without touch. So it might be a good idea to watch this issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36415