handsfreeDOM drawing demo for Firefox multitouch
This is an experimentation project developed at MozCamp in Chile. This sample uses a development build of Firefox with multitouch support enabled. The video shows a simple canvas draw application written in JavaScript. It uses the canvas tag and multitouch events support that is currently under development. The app simply draws circles with transparency levels so that finger event movements translates as a fluid painting experience. This application is really simple and came out in a few minutes of development. The real hands on experience with the device creates great motivation and vision about the potential. While at the conference, during Felipe's talk, I have suggested a test infra-structure so that developers could have a feel of the multi-touch implementation without the need to buy the device - a system to support emulating the touch events. The device itself ( the HP in this case ) I do not find it very nice for purchase yet as most of the apps are prepared for mouse events - it's really weird to touch the small buttons in Firefox. But it certainly helps us to design these next generation touch-enabled apps. I like to think of this as if it is a HandsFreeDOM experience.
