Fails on touchscreen laptops: Part Two about tooltipster

[louisameline]

Hello,

I am trying to debug tooltipster on mobile devices right now. Can you please describe the faulty behavior you currently see, and the actual behavior you would expect ? Thank you.

[db654]

Not necessarily a mobile device issue but this was specifically on a touchscreen laptop that also used a mouse. The original issue was on detection of ontouchstart, the plugin would bind to that event instead of mouseover. Fine for tablets, phones etc but not for notebooks.

The fix put in place for that (see jquery.tooltipster.js line 86) would listen for mousemove and set touchDevice to false. The problem as I see it is if the user doesn't move their mouse before initialization, the fix doesn't work.

[louisameline]

Please checkout the "touch" branch of the project, as I believe the issue is now fixed and will be merged in the next release. Use the regular version of the JS file as the minified version is not always up to date on that branch.

Be aware that the Touch branch is built on top of the refatored version of tooltipster, which needs testing on its own. Please provide feedback on how things work on your end (good or bad).

So, the touch capability is no longer opposed to the mouse capability : both can happen and will now be supported at the same time. Example : a tooltip appears because of a mouseover event, and disappears because of a touch event. Beside being not available at page load, mouse detection is never reliable anyway as mouse events can be simulated by other scripts or the browser itself.

The update also includes a fix for tooltips that sometimes never closed on touch devices.

[louisameline]

Merged into dev branch.