Multi-touch Articles
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interact.js for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures
interact.js is a JavaScript module for Drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+). Background I started it as part of my GSoC 2012 project for Biographer‘s network visualization tool. The tool was a web app which rendered to an SVG canvas and used jQuery UI […]
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Interview with Koen Kivits, winner of the Multi-touch Dev Derby
Koen Kivits won the Multi-touch Dev Derby with TouchCycle, his wonderful TRON-inspired mobile game. Recently, I had the chance to learn more about Koen: his work, his ambitions, and his thoughts on the future of web development. The interview How did you become interested in web development? I’ve been creating websites since high school, but […]
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Announcing the winners of the February 2013 Dev Derby!
Last month, some of the most creative web developers out there pushed the limits of touch events and multi-touch interaction in the February Dev Derby contest. After looking through the entries, our three expert judges–Franck Lecollinet, Guillaume Lecollinet, and (filling in for Craig Cook this month) yours truly–decided on three winners and two runners-up. Not […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – Experimenting With Multi-touch
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released (get it here). This beta comes with hundreds of bug fixes, improvements and multi-touch support for Windows 7 (see the release notes here). This article is about multi-touch support. Felipe Gomes is working on bringing multi-touch support to web content. In this latest beta, we are […]
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Beyond HTML5: experiments with interactive audio
This is a re-post of an important post from David Humphrey who has been doing a lot of experiments on top of Mozilla’s extensible platform and doing experiments with multi-touch, sound, video, WebGL and all sorts of other goodies. It’s worth going through all of the demos below. You’ll find some stuff that will amaze […]
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a multi-touch drawing demo for Firefox 3.7
Firefox Multitouch at MozChile – Drawing Canvas Experiment from Marcio Galli on Vimeo. A couple of months ago we featured a video that had some examples of multi-touch working in Firefox. At a recent event in South America, Marcio Galli put together a quick and fun drawing program based on the multi-touch code that we’ll […]
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bringing multi-touch to Firefox and the web
The ever-energetic Felipe Gomes was nice enough to intern with Mozilla this summer in between busy semesters in Brazil. During that time he’s been working on multi-touch support for Firefox on Windows 7. A nice result of that work is that he’s also found ways to bring multi-touch support to the web. He’s made a […]
