Touchy Browser Applications

Leveraging the touch capabilities of browsers may not be a core skillset for most web developers but as mobile development becomes more important, this will have to change. We'll discuss how to program for touch on the iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 browsers, cover browser quirks and differences as well as talk about effective examples of using touch on these devices.

Eric Sowell develops mobile web things for Match.com. He was the development lead on the mobile web platform (which was cool) until recently when his boss forced him to become "Manager of Web Applications." So now he speaks as much as he can before he loses all technical ability and just knows how to write Excel macros, create Powerpoint presentations and schedule meetings. You can follow him on Twitter (@mallioch) and find out more about him at http://ericsowell.com (http://ericsowell.com/).