> If you open this on a computer instead, you will have a chance to play with some emulators!
Instead of what? I was under the impression that the device I was on is a computer.
Edit: I was curious to understand what caused the site to show that box. From looking at the source and some interacting in the console, it seems to have been due to the 'isiOS' variable having the value 'true'. It was true despite the device not running iOS because '(navigator.maxTouchPoints && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 2)' was truthy, and window.MSStream wasn't. This device, a Surface Pro X, or more precisely the Chrome 139 browser running on it, reports 10 max touch points and doesn't have MSStream defined, and that appears to have been enough for it to be mistaken as a not-a-computer.
By now, after refreshing, I see an extra sentence 'Hey, site, you got it wrong. This is a real computer!' Perhaps the author saw this comment and added it quite quicky? If so, thank you!
And the emulator tracks whether you've done the things mentioned in the article, like open a particular control panel or tried a particular menu option.
This is amazing.
I couldn't get the later emulators to work correctly though. My mouse kept flying off to the right of the screen for some reason. Also unfortunate is the scaling and tilting effect makes the screens look real bad on my machine. Just ugly aliasing artifacts everywhere.
I agree it would be nice to have an "untransformed" view of the screen; I suspect the site might have been designed with the expectation of a high-DPI screen.
The author has also written the keyboard book - Shift Happens[1]. Also an incredible love letter, this one for keyboards. I kickstarted it and cannot be happier!
geerlingguy•4h ago
Edit:
...and I completely missed that they're running live emulation!