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September 8, 2014 14:15
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IE10 & IE11 don't trigger touch events (e.g., touchstart). If you want to differentiate touches from clicks, you must use the pointer events API and the event object's pointerType property:
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| function onPointerDownHandler (event) { | |
| if (event.pointerType === 'touch') { | |
| // Equivalent to a touchstart on MS Surface | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // For IE 10 | |
| element.addEventListener('MSPointerDown', onPointerDownHandler); | |
| // For IE 11+ | |
| element.addEventListener('pointerdown', onPointerDownHandler); |
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Chrome team has seen the light on Pointer API https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/ODWmcKNQl0I Safari and Firefox still dragging their feet