Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by deckard1 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:21PM
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eh? 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.
Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by Someone1234 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:27PM
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Windows 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).
Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by dabernathy89 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:27PM
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For mobile websites it would trigger the same browser events, right? Don't think they're referring to native apps.
Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by abiox on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:46PM
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seems 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.)
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.