The document outlines the importance of touch support in web design, emphasizing that modern browsers and applications must adapt to provide a touch-friendly user experience. It offers guidelines and strategies for developers on how to create websites optimized for touch interactions, including event handling and design considerations. Additionally, it lists resources and tools to improve touch support and performance on various devices.

1. 450 Lincoln Street
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Building Fast Multi-Touch
Enabled Web Sites
Ben Hoelting
@benhnet

2. Ben
Hoelting
In truth, he’s just a big kid. He loves designing systems
that solve real world problems. There is nothing more
satisfying than seeing something you helped develop
being used by the end users. Ben is also involved in the
technology community and runs the South Colorado .NET
user group. He also enjoys speaking at tech groups and
events around the country. Ben Hoelting
@benhnet
b.hoelting@aspenware.com

3. Agenda:
 Browser Support For Touch
 Do’s and Don’ts of Touch Websites
 Touch Demos
 Wrap-up
For sample code please go to
https://github.com/BenHNet/MultiTouchP
ublic

4. Touch Support In
Today’s Browsers

5. Hardware Accelerated
Fast

6. The Power Of The Whole PC

7. Independent Composition &
Manipulation
 Process input as fast as
possible
 On a separate thread
 Using the fastest methods
available on current hardware
 Compose Graphics as fast as
possible
 On a separate thread
 Using the fastest methods
available on current hardware
Thus even with
while (true) {}
Animations execute, videos play, application screens transition, pages pan and
zoom

8.  http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
 http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/05/15/30-tips-to-improve-
javascript-performance/
 http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/bundling-and-minification
We have the technology!
The Six Million Dollar Web
Better… Stronger… Faster…
Browsers and computers are getting better and faster. However, if developers get to
know how modern browsers work we can make our applications even faster.

9. Touch Support
Deliver a fast and fluid touch-first experience along with smooth animations
on a wide range of form factors including those built on ARM and SOC
architectures
– Position and Zoom manipulation
– The “right” positioning of fixed elements
– Soft Keyboard Integration (impact on panning, edit, etc)
– Events (is a click a click?)
– Developer queues for panning and zooming for performance
– Zoom and Pan content in a sub-scroller
– Innovations such as back/forward navigation

10. Today’s Web wasn’t designed with a
finger in mind.
Touch Targeting

11. Dos and Don’ts of
Touch Websites

12. Quick Steps to a Touch-Friendly
Site
For 2 decades, the Web has
been built with mouse and
keyboard in mind.
Here’s a checklist to ensure your
site is accessible to users of any
input device.

13. With mouse, users can target
links easily because the mouse
cursor changes from an arrow to
a pointer hand while over the
link:
DO: provide CSS :hover styles for
links
With touch, users need feedback
when they touch the screen to
know that they successfully
targeted the link:
Did I hit
the link?

14. DON’T: hide content behind hover
With a mouse, users can point at
something to hover it
independently of clicking it to
activate it.
For most touch devices, hover
and active are the same thing.
Consider tap-based menus, or
scrubbing menus.

15. DO: identify input type using HTML5
Forms
IE10 introduces support for
HTML5 input types including,
but not limited to:
<input type="email">
<input type="tel">
<input type="url">
Specify the format of the input
and IE10 will give your users the
right touch keyboard for the job.
IE10 touch-optimizes all of the
supported HTML5 input
elements.

16. DO: feature detect, DON’T: browser
detect
Detect support for the IE10 touch APIs:
if(navigator.msPointerEnabled)
//Supports pointer input
Detect hardware support for touch:
if(navigator.msMaxTouchPoints>1)
//Supports multi-touch

17. DO: provide ample room for your
finger
Avg. 11mm
7mm
7mm
2mm padding
Ideal Min Target

18. DO: use the Windows 8 “touch
language”
Press & Hold to Learn Tap for Primary ActionPinch to Stretch/Zoom Turn to Rotate
tooltips (@title)
contextmenu event
gesture events
Direct Manipulation
zooming
gesture events
gesture events
click event
gesture events
InteractionTools

19. DON’T: reinvent touch interactions

20. DO: take advantage of enhanced
pinning and tile notifications
Your site can now define the tile(s) to use when your site is pinned to the start screen.
Use buildmypinnedsite.com to create a tile for all sizes and setup notifications.

21. Good Touch
Sites Demo
 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/browser-
ie#touchweb=touchvidtab1
 http://www.msn.com

22. Working with Touch

23. Deep Dive into the IE Touch APIs
Pointer,
Gesture
Events
CSS Custom Panning, Zooming,
and Swipes
Direct Manipulation Pan/Zoom, HTML5 Controls,
Touch Targeting

24. By default, pan, zoom, and double-tap “win” over DOM events.
When IE takes over a touch contact for pan/zoom/double-tap, the page is signaled
with an MSPointerCancel event.
So, if you need move events, drag and drop, tapping fast, pinching, etc. then
configure IE for just the touch actions you do want:
-ms-touch-action: none | manipulation | double-tap-zoom
|
auto | inherit;
Configuring Touch Default Actions
(Or, “how to get events to fire when dragging your finger”)

25. Custom Pan, Swipe, & Zoom
HTML CSS
<div id="scrollViewer">
<div id="scrollContents">
<div
class="page“>1</div>
<div
class="page“>2</div>
<div
class="page“>3</div>
</div>
</div>
#scrollViewer {
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
overflow-x: scroll;
overflow-y: hidden;
-ms-scroll-snap-type: mandatory;
-ms-scroll-snap-points-x: snapInterval(0px,
100%);
}
.page {
width: 500px;
float: left;
}
Page 2Page 1 Page 3
Panning Snap Points

26. Touch CSS Demos

27. Simple Photo Gallery Viewer
<style>
img {
width:500px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.photoGallery {
width: 500px;
height: 340px;
overflow-x: auto;
overflow-y: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
-ms-scroll-snap-points-x: snapInterval(0px,500px);
-ms-scroll-snap-type: mandatory;
-ms-overflow-style: none;
-ms-scroll-chaining:none;
}
</style>
<h1>Photos</h1>
<div class="photoGallery">
<img src="img1.jpg"><img src="img2.jpg"><img src="img3.jpg"><img src="img4.jpg">
</div>

28. http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/
W3C Touch Events
Events Event Properties
touchstart
touchmove
touchend
touchcancel
clientX
clientY
pageX
pageY
screenX
screenY

29. Pointer events help make your site have no
compromises because they’re hardware agnostic.
Raw Input MSPointer Events
Pointer
Mouse
Pen
Touch
Events Event Properties
MSPointerDown
MSPointerMove
MSPointerUp
MSPointerOver
MSPointerOut
MSPointerCancel
Everything you have for
mouse, plus:
pointerType
pressure
rotation
tiltX
tiltY
width
height
Capture individual contacts to elements:
elm.msSetPointerCapture(pointerId);
elm.msReleasePointerCapture(pointerId);

30. Touch Events - “Can I Use”

31. Touch Event Demos

32. Simple Google Touch Example
function ol() {
canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
timer = setInterval(update, 15);
canvas.addEventListener('touchend', function () {
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);
moving = false;
});
canvas.addEventListener('touchmove', function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
touches = event.touches;
});
canvas.addEventListener('touchstart', function (event) {
moving = true;
console.log('start');
});
};

33. Simple IE Touch Example
function ol() {
canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
timer = setInterval(update, 30);
canvas.addEventListener('MSPointerMove', function (event) {
if (event.button > 0 || event.pointerType ==
event.MSPOINTER_TYPE_TOUCH) {
event.preventDefault();
makeCircle(event.pageX, event.pageY);
}
});
canvas.addEventListener('MSPointerUp', function (event) {
if (event.button > 0 || event.pointerType ==
event.MSPOINTER_TYPE_TOUCH) {
event.preventDefault();
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);
makeCircle(event.pageX, event.pageY);
}
});
};

34. Touch Event Libraries

35. JQuery UI Touch Events
$("#canvas").bind("tap", canvasTapped );
 http://api.jquerymobile.com/tap/

36. Kendo UI Touch Events
$("#canvas").kendoTouch({ multiTouch: true, touchstart: canvasTapped });
 http://http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/mobile/touch

37. Touch Library Demos

38. Wrap Up
Fast Touch Support Touch Ready Sites
Modern browsers
are re-imagined to
support touch. IE is
input device agnostic
and provides APIs for
using touch events.
Well written apps
can make the web
even faster
Touch Standards
For the past two
decades web sites
have been designed
for mouse input.
Touch is a paradigm
shift for web design.
Touch API standards
are not defined.
Requires extra work
to support all
browsers. 3rd party
touch JS libraries
provide some cross-
browser support.

39. Resources:
 http://http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/browser-
ie#touchweb=touchvidtab1
 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
 http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/05/15/30-tips-to-improve-
javascript-performance/
 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/
 http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/bundling-and-minification
 http://www.webplatform.org/
 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/3-071
 http://http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/mobile/touch
 http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/jquery-plugins-that-handle-
touch-events-43-items/

40. 450 Lincoln Street
Suite 101
Denver, CO 80203
719.359.9692
www.aspenware.com
Building Fast Multi-Touch
Enabled Web Sites
Ben Hoelting
@benhnet