CSS4 media queries to tackle touch  Shift to input concepts
rather than explicit lists will benefit developers  An editor's
draft of Media Queries Level 4, edited by Florian Rivoal, has
been released. It explains that, because CSS already caters for
media types, the new proposals are primarily aimed at enabling
more precise targeting, making design responsive to input types.
One of the new proposed properties is 'pointer', which would
take the values 'none', 'coarse' and 'fine', with 'coarse' and
'fine', respectively, representing "a pointing device of limited
accuracy" (such as a finger on a touchscreen) and "an accurate
pointing device" (such as a traditional desktop pointer,
controlled by a mouse or trackpad).  Elsewhere, a 'hover'
property would query whether the input can hover, enabling
designers to amend a site's functionality accordingly. Rivoal
told .net that the proposals have yet to be debated in the CSS
Working Group, but he expects them to be well received.  The new
ideas in part arrived because