Search Results for: touch screen
Touch-friendly Drag and Drop
July 22, 2015, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
In this article we explore some touch-friendly drag and drop implementations. In particular we'll be looking at DOM and canvas-based drag and drop approaches. We'll also build on some of the things we learned in previous HTML5 articles on mobiForge... Read More
The HTML5 Pointer Events API: Combining touch, mouse, and pen
June 15, 2015, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
The Pointer Events API is an HTML5 specification that combines touch, mouse, pen and other inputs into a single unified API. It is less well supported than the Touch Events API, although support is growing, with all the major browsers working on an implementation, except for Apple's Safari. There's a colorful background to how the current state of browser support for this API came to be which we covered previously on mobiForge, but in this article we'll just look at its usage... Read More
HTML5 for the Mobile Web: Touch Events
August 15, 2013, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With the widespread adoption of touchscreen devices, HTML5 brings to the table, among many other things, a set of touch-based interaction events. Mouse-based events such as hover, mouse in, mouse out etc. aren’t able to adequately capture the range of interactions possible via touchscreen, so touch events are a welcome and necessary addition to the web developer's toolbox. Use cases for the touch events API include gesture recognition, multi-touch, drag and drop, and any other touch-based interfaces... Read More
Designing for Touch: Thumb and Finger Sized Design
June 19, 2013, by Martin Clancy
IDC recently published research showing that more than 50% of the 418.6 million mobile phones shipped during the first quarter of the 2013 were smartphones. Back in December 2012, Forrester reported that in the USA, 19% of adults (34 million people) now own a tablet and that by 2016 that will rise to 113 million tablet owners... Read More
What is Mobile 2.0? Three expert opinions: Sven Huberts, Marvellous; Ben Scott-Robinson, We Love Mobile; Raam Thakrar, Touchnote
November 17, 2010, by mobiThinking
Try it… next time someone mentions Mobile 2.0 as part of sales or marketing pitch, put them on the spot and ask them what it means. Here are two opinions from two top mobile agencies: Ben Scott-Robinson (BSR) creative director We Love Mobile and Sven Huberts (SH), managing director, Netherlands, Marvellous/Isobar and Raam Thakrar (RT), co-founder and CEO, of mobile-to-postcard company Touchnote... Read More
