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[Burned Phoenix]

Microsoft details touch editing in Office Web Apps on Windows 8 and iOS Tablets in the latest post of the official Office Web Apps blog today. In designing the Office Web Apps for touch, the Office team set out to achieve the following goals:

• Users should be up and running with touch-enabled Office Web Apps right away
  
• Users don't need to learn to navigate a new user interface
  
• Users can easily move back and forth between touch and mouse/keyboard experiences
  
• The full feature set of the Office Web Apps, including editing tools, must be enabled on touch devices like tablets and touch monitors

Building the user interface to be touchable and responsive to touch input presented interesting design challenges. One of their core objectives was to get users started right away with Office Web Apps on tablets using simple and intuitive touch manipulations rather than complex gestures that require learning and remembering.

Five actions are all it takes to get started:



In this post, they describe how they achieved it.

Read Here

[FalseAgent]

so Office Web Apps are gesture-aware now? That would be amazing! Hopefully the touch features aren't IE10-exclusive. The touch features of the Pulse webapp only work on IE10.

Does anyone know if or not it's a case of Chrome and Firefox not supporting touch in their browsers?