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Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? by pier25 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:00AM (#28492027)
Even today, in the year 2021, browsers do not have native support for gestures which are ubiquitous in the touch screen world.

To pan/pinch/swipe you either need to implement it yourself or use a JS library like Hammer which adds unnecessary bloat.

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Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? by Something1234 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:06AM (#28492074)
Don't do this without a good reason. We finally got a lot of mobile sites rendering good and you want to take that away.
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Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? by pier25 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:42PM (#28496317)
A good reason is simply that gestures are a staple of mobile UIs.
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Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? by beebeepka on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:18AM (#28492170)
1. It's a good thing that you have to implement them yourself. A lot of this stuff is super arbitrary.

2. Opera had gestures 15+ years ago and it was glorious for those that liked them

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