# Cannot grow/shrink composition pane with touch

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-grow-shrink-composition-pane-with-touch/53316>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [23.Ноябрь.2016 22:00:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-grow-shrink-composition-pane-with-touch/53316 "2016-11-23T22:00:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![barryvan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryvan/32/82635_2.png) [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)\
**Post date:** [23.Ноябрь.2016 22:00:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-grow-shrink-composition-pane-with-touch/53316/1 "2016-11-23T22:00:30Z")

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On my Surface, I can’t grow or shrink the composer area using touch – it’s interpreted as a scroll of the content below.

My guess is that this is because on the “desktop” version of Discourse, only mouse events are handled. Rather than _also_ handle touch events, is it worthwhile moving Discourse to [pointer events](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_events) such that any current and future pointing devices will Just Work™? The jQuery team have a [non-jQuery polyfill](https://github.com/jquery/PEP) for pointer events.

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