Will/Does IE10 Support Touch Events?

Question

I\'m looking at doing a project that would target Internet Explorer 10 using a touch screen. I don\'t currently have a touch screen handy, but need to know if Internet Expl

Answer 1

It appears IE 10 doesn't support the 'touchstart' family of events used by iOS and other mobile browsers. IE 10 does however support multi-touch events using their own 'MSPointer' events. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/hh272903#_DOMTouch for details and example sites like http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/TouchEffects.