Comments on pointer Media Query

By: David Walsh

2012-12-12T15:20:21Z

I just found the proposal interesting — I’m not someone who implements these things at Mozilla. I’ve updated the note at the top to make it clear that this proposal has not been approved.

By: Daniel Glazman

2012-12-12T13:27:30Z

With my CSS WG Co-chairmanship’s hat on, this is a part of an Editor’s Draft that was *never* discussed inside the CSS WG and is *far away* from reaching the level of first public Working Draft yet. I really hope your implementation is prefixed or behind a preference. And I think you should probably not have implemented-and-released it at all without discussing it with the CSS WG first… Speaking of the proposal, ‘coarse’ is a VERY bad choice for a value since most non english speakers will not understand it, trust me on that please.

In summary, this is a very very very early proposal, it’s still subject to major changes, and I certainly don’t want to hear in the future “we’ve implemented and shipped it, we can’t change it any more” from Mozilla :-)

By: Alex

2012-12-12T11:52:04Z

… or Aurora support this?

By: Alex

2012-12-12T11:51:30Z

Do Canary

By: MT

2012-12-11T23:41:19Z

Providing a live demo for something that has no implementations at all is somewhat confusing.

By: DigDug2k

2012-12-11T23:37:47Z

The problem with this particular query is that it assumes you have one or the other, when its becoming more common to have both a fine and a course pointer. In fact, studies have constantly shown people are really really good at using two different pointing devices at the same time!

Webdevs need to be careful that they don’t assume just because the user is on a touch screen, they’re using touch. Sites need to design to handle both (simultaneously, CSS is the oddball here because there you can’t optimize for both experiences at the same time). PointerEvents will make that easier, but they’re barely at the starting gate right now (which is good because it means this time we can design something good and not just something that matches the iPhone).

By: simurai

2012-12-11T19:11:01Z

This is great. Is there also a way to check this with JS? I guess you could use the “animation end event” hack for this, but would be better if it’s officially supported and always in sync.