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Programmer demos Firefox with multi-touch Web apps

By Stephen Shankland on 25 August 2009, 10:08am

Software

A programmer has been working to enable multi-touch technology for Web applications in the Firefox browser.

Firefox can already be controlled with multi-touch gestures -- a three-finger sweep up or down for going to the top or bottom of a Web page, for example, or two-finger pinch gestures for zooming out. But Felipe Gomes, a Brazilian computer-science student who has just finished a stint as a Mozilla intern, has demonstrated how Web-based applications -- not just Firefox -- can use multi-touch.

His demonstration shows multi-touch controls for shrinking and enlarging icons, painting, selecting a region of a photo, and playing Pong.

Source: Coder shows Firefox with multitouch Web apps on CNET News

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