Touchscreen laptops - access touch events?

[Dominik Steiner]

Hi there,

is there a way to get touch events from touchscreen laptops or desktop
computers? Am I right that only the iphone and android browser support
touch events so far? So that it is not possible to access those touch
events from the touchscreen computers?

Thanks

Dominik

[spierce7]

I don't think there is a way to access touch events in and of
themselves. Touch screens are just simply another way of controlling
the mouse for the computer. In terms of phones, when they touch a
link, its equivalent to them clicking the link. Basically what I'm
saying is that a touch event should be looked at by the browser, and
thus GWT, as just simply a mouse click/move.

On Jun 5, 8:54 pm, Dominik Steiner <dominik.j.stei...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

[Sripathi Krishnan]

On iPhone/iPad, mobile safari raises touch events. You can write javascript code to listen to these events. Since these events are browser specific, GWT doesn't handle them out-of the-box. However, it is is possible to extend GWT so that you can handle these events, and Lombardi's development blog explains how to achieve this.

Apart from mobile safari, there isn't a way to access touch events on desktops that have a touch screen.

--Sri

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[Dominik Steiner]

Thanks for your answers, it confirms then what I was thinking.