With the help of the new touch-action CSS property, for example, developers can now disable touch scrolling, pinch-zooming and double-tap zooming on parts of their content.
It includes a customized Google map that allows users to pinch and scroll around Manhattan and parts of Long Island for the sites where Abstract Expressionism was born and nurtured, from Barnett Newman's East 19th Street Studio to the Cedar Tavern.
And AdMob is rolling out a new adaptive mobile ad unit, which allows for a banner sizes ad unit to remain a constant size as consumers pinch and scroll through a Web site that's designed for a PC screen on their mobile device.
It's also a bonus for readers who need large type and people who use their readers for PDFs, which can be a ginormous pain on a smaller screen with all of the pinching and scrolling.
POS makers acknowledge it is far easier to take the touch-based skills many people are now learning from a very early age - pinch, swipe and scroll - and incorporate them into their own devices, rather than inventing any new methods of inputting data that may incur hours of training.
Number 1: Multi-touch gestures — Apps will be controlled by different multi-touch gestures; including three fingered swipe, scroll, pinching and zooming.
Symbian^3 added multiple homescreens with support for widgets, faster graphics and scrolling, pinch to zoom, visual multitasking with app previews and switching, among other new features.
Pinch to zoom, scrolling and even Apple Pencil support are all available here, and all work very well – better than I'd hoped to imagine they would.
You can touch it, too, to click, scroll or pinch to zoom, a feature curiously still absent from MacBooks.
