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I just made Cloud9 IDE work on tablets

• SchizoDuckie 15y ago
  Since the mobile optimized version is taking quite some time(!!!!), and I had some spare time for fun, I decided to try if I could get the current version to work in touch enabled browsers. I scanned the files and did some usability tests on a galaxy tab and identified the main problem: The extended use of the 'dblclick' event to open files. A very natural thing in a desktop ofcourse, but not so on a tablet. I decided to see if things would start working if I caught doubletap touch events and fired them as doubleclick, and voila the whole thing started working, within 2 minutes. That hád to be to easy! It was: I wasn't able to scroll the overflowing containers. After some research in code, experiments with converting touch to drag events, and a stroke of genious later, i decided to convert 2 finger swipe events into mousewheel events, fired on the same object. Problem solved! It's not pretty, but at least workable! I can edit my code using Cloud9, on the go, TODAY! Made a gist so that people can do with it whatever they want, enjoy :)