Maybe I'm not understanding the objective or the constraints. I thought the goal is to disable autofocus on mobile devices in order to prevent the appearance of

Maybe I'm not understanding the objective or the constraints. I thought the goal is to disable autofocus on mobile devices in order to prevent the appearance of the virtual keyboard from unexpectedly disturbing the layout. In order to achieve this why not use @media to identify a device which uses touch input (I'm sure there are some edge cases, but this seems like a good proxy for a mobile device) and javascript or jquery to disable autofocus?