# Device detection and review request

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/device-detection-and-review-request/297446
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/device-detection-and-review-request/297446 "2024-03-01T11:03:16Z")
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### Author: ![anon36555649](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon36555649](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36555649)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/device-detection-and-review-request/297446/3 "2024-03-01T14:08:07Z")

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Searched for related topics there are some old ones:

> [@User Experience on Discourse with optional touch-input](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-experience-on-discourse-with-optional-touch-input/40190):
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> Continuing the discussion from [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-our-new-post-rendering-engine/39221/117), [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308), [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lack-of-auto-focus-when-hitting-reply-on-multi-input-systems/36002), and [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempt-to-filter-category-on-topic-edit-results-in-modifying-title/35738)… All the topics linked above have in common that there are issues with Discourse, generally related to UX, when a using Discourse on a system that has touch, but primarily is interacted with via keyboard and mouse. First, it is my understanding (according to @codinghorror) that it is not possible with JS and HTML to detect this type of system, separately from any other system that has a touch input. With that out of the way, I would li…

For this to be developed as a plugin could be marketplace post if you have a budget for that, otherwise this probably wouldn’t be priority for a core feature unless someone wanted to sponsor that.

Not sure if this would be a personal data / gdpr challenge, probably would be.

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