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Created September 6, 2011 17:10
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Checking for touch support
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hastouch.html
<!doctype html>
<title>has touch?</title>
<h1>Has this device touch? </h1>
<script>
var isTouch = (function(){
try{
var event = document.createEvent("TouchEvent"); // Should throw an error if not supported
return !!event.initTouchEvent; // Check for existance of initialization method
}catch(error){
return false;
}
}());
document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[0].innerHTML += isTouch ? "yes" : "no";
</script>
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