Windows Vista did something similar to support both panning and selecting with touch screens.* A vertical drag would pan the content, and a horizontal drag wou

Windows Vista did something similar to support both panning and selecting with touch screens.* A vertical drag would pan the content, and a horizontal drag would act like a mouse: select or drag-drop the content. http://youtu.be/roP3YtLvblE?t=2m22s http://youtu.be/roP3YtLvblE?t=2m22s I thought it worked well, even though it made horizontal scrolling harder (had to use 2 fingers). Windows 8 uses tap-drag for selection instead. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/touch-mouse-and-search/using-touch-gestures-tap-swipe-and-beyond http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/touch-mouse-a... (* I worked on this feature at MS back in the day)