From: Thoughts on Flash:

Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?

Even if iPhones, iPods and iPads ran Flash, it would not solve the problem that most Flash websites need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices.

Ri-hi-ight. So I've written a few HTML5 mobile web apps. They do look great, and they work on more than just the iPhones, iPods and iPads - but that's not my gripe here.

Steve, you're saying that by using just HTML5, CSS and JavaScript that touch events are just going to work?

Well, you've clearly not taken a "desktop" web app and moved it to mobile. There's the touch event system. Something that desktop browsers know nothing about. So if I want my app or game to feel responsive, I've actually got to response to a touchstart event instead of a click event. In fact it's pretty difficult to control how these events fire and whether you can cancel the click entirely.

What I'm saying it - it doesn't just work, you do have to write code to handle touch events.

Faruk writes:

He never said it would "just work" with web technologies, just that IF you have to do new work anyway, why not use open technologies?

To which I replied with:

Like I said, I'm pro-open web, but for argument's sake, here's why: because your entire codebase is in another language.

// originally via: http://remy.tumblr.com/post/558663481/tof-touch

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