Multi-touch

Building Multi-touch Web Apps can be a daunting task for any Web developer.  Luckily the new W3C Pointer Event specification makes it seamless.  This short tutorial provides a brief introduction to Pointer Events and then demonstrates how an app written for Mouse Events can be…

In this video, we take a look at the Internet Explorer 10 on the Windows 8 Release Preview and the improvements made in performance, touch-first experiences, and HTML5 standards-based adaptive layouts. We explore three new demos available on IETestDrive.com today. The first demo, Chalkboard…

Bjorn Kuijt, from To-Increase, a global ISV and Microsoft Gold Certified partner specialize in Manufacturing, Warehouse Management & Distribution (WMD), Construction, Retail and Professional Services, discusses the use of MultiTouch capabilities of Windows 7 in ERP Forms, used…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch…

When you are designing an app, it's important to think about all of the people who will use it, including those with disabilities such as visual, mobility, hearing, and cognitive impairments. In the United States alone, 36 million people have a disability and worldwide that figure is estimated…

In Windows 8, people who are blind can use Narrator to access their machines. This video discusses some additional design aspects on how you as an app developer can design your app to work well with Narrator.  These considerations will help to ensure that people with vision…

Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 1 Speaker : Christophe De Baene, RealDolmen

We have added multi-touch capabilities to Windows 7 that provide support for both Windows 7 and applications--even those applications that were not developed specifically to support multi-touch. As developers, we have the opportunity to opt into multi-touch in Windows 7 and…

In the Windows 7 Multi-Touch Overview video we talked about the basic multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 and a little bit about the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model. In this video, we focus on Windows 7 multi-touch programming model. Join Reed Townsend and Ian…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch…