Chapter 10. Scrolling and Swiping
Few things on touch interfaces are as unpleasant as broken or slow scrolling and swiping. In this chapter we’ll go into more depth about how to make an interface with both. The goal is to make it fast, lightweight, and most importantly, to make it feel right. You’ll learn about scrolling with swiping, and get details on making touch events work in Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8.
Scrolling
Scrolling with one finger is the most common user gesture. It’s also one that’s easy to ignore because usually you don’t have to worry much about it—if your page is tall enough, scrolling will just work itself out. In the layout shown in Figure 10.1 and Figure 10.2 the designer wants the image to stay fixed with the text ...
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