pixel scroll

[yukulele]

I would like to know if a mouse event is generated from classic wheel device (logitech/microsoft mouse) or a pixel scroll device (Apple magic mouse/trackpad)

How to reliably differentiate them ?

$('#my_elem').on('mousewheel', function(event) {
    console.log(event.fromPixelScroll); //boolean
});

[brandonaaron]

Good question. I'm not sure we can reliably differentiate them but I'll dig into this a little bit in the near future. In the mean time my initial gut feeling is that we may have to just investigate the event.deltaFactor... If the deltaFactor is 1, then it is a pixel scroll device. More than likely this simple approach won't work for all the browser/os/device combinations.

[pavelthq]

any news about this?

[brandonaaron]

None so far. Haven't had a chance to test out what I mentioned earlier.—
Brandon Aaron

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Pavel notifications@github.com wrote:

any news about this?

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[dmethvin]

@yukulele So the feature being requested here is to detect the difference between devices on the same computer? Can you do some legwork to provide data about the events generated by each and the properties in the event objects? If they differ it may be possible to distinguish them.