Mention mobile/touch friendly

[johnwalley]

Purpose

As a developer I want to know this library will play nice with mobile and touch devices.

Proposal

Check this is true! If it is then add a line near the top of the README to this effect.

Acceptance criteria

• As a developer I can validate that the library works on mobile and touch devices
• As a developer I can learn that the library works on mobile and touch devices from reading the documentation

[marcgabe15]

I tried on google chrome dev tools for ipad and other devices and does not work. Would love this feature if possible!

[johnwalley]

The main obstacle to being mobile/touch friendly is the size of the hit targets. In particular, the separator is only 4px wide/tall by default. For now, it would be up to the developer to set a different value. However, I plan to explore the issue in more depth and probably provide an out of the box solution. For example, we could detect we're on a touch device and use a different default value (VS Code uses 20px in this situation).

I'd be interested in hearing about any other mobile/touch issues you've experienced.

[johnwalley]

There is a PR tracking initial work: #124. However, it is very rough and there is much work still to do. I'm not sure the payoff justifies the effort.

[johnwalley]

I think the library is now working relatively well on iOS/iPadOS devices. This doesn't use the work in #124 but does include improvements around increasing the hit target size and sash size on suitable devices.

If anyone with an Android device reading this could let me know if the mobile/touch support is working there I'd be grateful.

I'll add some words to the README and website about this and mark this issue as closed.

[Kaishley]

I think the library is now working relatively well on iOS/iPadOS devices. This doesn't use the work in #124 but does include improvements around increasing the hit target size and sash size on suitable devices.

If anyone with an Android device reading this could let me know if the mobile/touch support is working there I'd be grateful.

I'll add some words to the README and website about this and mark this issue as closed.

This does not work well on android devices when it comes to touch support.