Charts' mouseover tooltips are not shown when using a mouse on a touchscreen laptop

[cpeterso]

Description

I have a Windows laptop with a touchscreen and an external monitor that is not a touchscreen. Billboard's chart tooltips do not show up when I mouse over a chart. Billboard seems to assume that "touchscreen means no mouse".

Steps to check or reproduce

1. On a laptop with a touch screen, load https://naver.github.io/billboard.js/
2. Using a mouse or touchpad (not the touchscreen), mouse over the bar chart.
3. No tooltips! 😿
4. Now tap the bar chart using the touchscreen.
5. The tooltips appear as expected. 😸

[cpeterso]

I can reproduce this behavior in both Firefox 127 and Chrome 126 on Windows 11.

[netil]

Hi @cpeterso, the input type will be chosen according the user environment and it can't be supported in both ways simultaneously.

Try giving below option to force mouse support.

inputType: {
    mouse: true,
    touch: false
}

[cpeterso]

Thanks @netil! With your suggestion, tooltips now appear when using mouse on my touchscreen Windows laptop. As such, I will close this issue. 🎉

Could billboard.js use PointerEvents to abstract away the difference between mouse and touch events, allowing either or both to work on the same content?