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> I mean, who uses touch screens for development? Web developers who want to test using real touch input events rather than the quirky emulation found in a few
by Someone1234 9y ago
> I mean, who uses touch screens for development?
Web developers who want to test using real touch input events rather than the quirky emulation found in a few browsers.
If you're developing for touch, in particular things like drag & drop, you want a real device.
Even if you have an iPad or smartphone test device too, it is nice to have that ability on your main development machine rather than jumping around.
- deckard1 9y agoeh? You're not running Android on iOS on the thing. It's still emulation (or "virtualized" environment), and it's still largely going to be crap.
- dabernathy89 9y agoFor mobile websites it would trigger the same browser events, right? Don't think they're referring to native apps.
- Someone1234 9y agoWindows touch devices are a device type we target. Typically testing using Chrome on Windows using a touch screen gives you a reasonable frame of reference for how iOS and Android behave since all are WebKit-like (at least until fine tuning, when you're of course testing on real devices).
- abiox 9y agoseems to me that a touch screen laptop is a real touch device with browsers emitting (afaik) the same real touch events. as such it would seem to be better for tuning behavior compared to a laptop without real touch events. (of course it's best to have actual devices around for testing.)
- herf 9y agoIt's kind of amazing in the browser (both Chrome and Edge, not Firefox). For regular apps it doesn't matter as much.
- torgard 9y agoI find that the chrome emulator works pretty well. Haven't had and issues.