Comments on: Scrolling HTML with Flash Content on Touch Devices

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:22:45 +0000

I’ve problems on my HTC legend (Android 2.1) with scrollbars within Flash-websites …..

The multitouch makes it impossible to drag the scrollbar :-(

Any workarounds?? or any solutions in next player??

Thanks Lars, Copenhagen

By: Top Flash Misperceptions : Flash cannot run on touch devices at Mike Chambers

Top Flash Misperceptions : Flash cannot run on touch devices at Mike Chambers — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:49:00 +0000

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By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:58 +0000

@Robin

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Hmm – I did some testing with the nexus one running 10.1. Multi-touch gestures didn’t work at all.
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Yeah, multi-touch isnt working in the current development FP android build.

Yes, we will be adding multi-touch.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: Robin B.

Robin B. — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:17:28 +0000

Hmm – I did some testing with the nexus one running 10.1. Multi-touch gestures didn’t work at all. Not sure if they are not implemented yet or if they conflict with the zooming-feature of the flash player. Does Adobe plan to implement multi-touch on Mobile devices?

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:24:24 +0000

Yeah. Where a gesture would conflict with a particular OS / Browser, we could of course provide a different solution gesture, one that is consitent with that particular OS and Browser.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: Patrick W.

Patrick W. — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:35:27 +0000

“However, if the user double taps the Flash content, it will go into a scaled full screen mode, and the swipe / drag gesture will then be passed to the Flash content.”

I have a question. When setting the scale mode to NO_SCALE, what happens exactly when double tapping the flash content? Will the movie will still be scaled based on the original (previously displayed) size? Or will that action throw a resize event so the application can resize itself to the new fullscreen size?

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:13:15 +0000

I hope you can see where Apple would find this solution objectionable for a Safari plug-in.

You can change the meaning of standard gestures in your own applications and Apple will probably not give you much of a hard time. But changing the meaning of gestures in one mode versus another inside Safari is probably not going to fly with Apple’s UI guardians.

This solution has little hope of being adopted even if Apple was willing to allow a Flash plug-in.

By: Gary Horsman

Gary Horsman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:08:40 +0000

What I’m wondering is how to distinguish between a tap-and-swipe and a rollover using a touch interface. Or even if that really matters seeing as rollovers in HTML/JavaScript are not a giant issue on touch devices. But in certain Flash apps, there could be a crucial differentiation between mouseover and click-and-drag events as there’s no obvious way to come up with two distinct gestures for a multitouch UI since one involves adding a mousedown event to instantiate a concurrent click event with a drag. Thoughts? Anyone?

By: rdza

rdza — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:47:27 +0000

Loving this anti-FUD article series.
As Jemaleddin suggests, multi-touch can solve this, by using two fingers in concert to effectively simulate a mouse wheel.

I would bet that all of the missing middle & right click|wheel events from your previous article could potentially be emulated using 2-3 fingers in a touchscreen browser with multi-touch event access from the w3c device api.

By: Josh On

Josh On — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:33:21 +0000

Is there a difference between the mobile browser scaled full screen mode and the regular full screen mode? I am mostly concerned about keyboard input. Will users be able to input text in this mode?