One of the most exciting development in multitouch this year is the introduction of multi-touch support in Silverlight 3.Silverlight wasn't the first platform to bring multi-touch to the web. Apple already has a multitouch Java script API built into the Safari browser on the iPhone as reported in one of my February posts, "JavaScript Multi-touch API for Safari iPhone Browser".
What makes Silverlight 3 so great is that you can use it across browsers on the desktop which will be really valuable when Microsoft releases Windows 7 later this year.
Oddly, Adobe Flash is way behind on multi-touch which is startling to say the least. I don't think this will undo Flash in favor of Silverlight, but certaintly makes Silverlight more attractive to me. Adobe, where are you?
For a basic demonstration of how to program multi-touch applications in Silverlight 3 read this article by Tim Heuer.
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