Experimental Firefox Allows Multitouch Interaction

Hot on the heels of Apple’s new MacBook line — which among other things, offers a multitouch trackpad –coming to market, we’re seeing the first third party applications which support multitouch gestures. Mozilla is the first to the party, and has now made available an experimental build that will support multitouch gestures from within Firefox.

With this experimental build (need we point out, that is OS X only, and next, only whether you have a shiny new MacBook or MacBook Pro with full glass trackpad, or MacBook Air) you’ll gain the ability to:

• Swipe forward and backward (like the buttons on your browser)
• Pinch to zoom in and out
• Twist from tab to tab

Any of you who are in a position to take advantage of that cool new feature in Firefox, can thank Edward Lee for his efforts on that work. He details his progress here, whether you’re interested in taking a look.

What’s much more interesting to me in that news, is the rapid emergence of the third party software developers taking advantage of the new hardware feature. Adobe’s CS4 suite is supposed to utilize the same thing in some cases. Are there any others out there right now that additionally leverage that functionality? I’d love to compose out your thoughts on killer apps for multitouch trackpads. I think photos and graphics are the obvious targets off the bat. Being the Quicksilver junkie that I am, I’d love to see the Gestures plugin capability expanded to work with multitouch. That kind of feature would really blow up the functionality (for me) that I get from Quicksilver!

So let’s compose out it — what do you crave (as far as multitouch support goes) from third party software vendors?

Via MozillaLinks

Orginal post by Nick Santilli

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