Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n...
by robocat on Saturday March 14, 2015 @04:29AM
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> It's not that difficult.
It is bloody difficult.
Last time I tried using the VMs, the license expired after 3 months, and the VMs didn't work well under VirtualBox/Linux.
Touch support in particular is completely crappy. MSPointer events in IE10, with horrid corner case bugs. Changed to pointer events (no prefix) in IE11, with different bugs. Windows Phone 8.1 update to IE11 supports iOS style ontouchstart events.
Pinch zoom is different from page zoom, and pinch zoom doesn't act the same as iOS/android.
I hate Microsoft's bullshit touch support.
Oh, and about 0.1% (measured) of our users are using IE with touch... What a waste of my time.
It is bloody difficult.
Last time I tried using the VMs, the license expired after 3 months, and the VMs didn't work well under VirtualBox/Linux.
Touch support in particular is completely crappy. MSPointer events in IE10, with horrid corner case bugs. Changed to pointer events (no prefix) in IE11, with different bugs. Windows Phone 8.1 update to IE11 supports iOS style ontouchstart events.
Pinch zoom is different from page zoom, and pinch zoom doesn't act the same as iOS/android.
I hate Microsoft's bullshit touch support.
Oh, and about 0.1% (measured) of our users are using IE with touch... What a waste of my time.