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martinnn
Apr 17, 2020Iron Contributor
Has the Edge team forgotten that touch screens exist?
Chromium Edge is completely lacking in touchscreen support and I have seen no mentions of them planning to add any in. Legacy Edge was much better for touch screens. I find it odd, to say the least, ...
Neon01
Apr 17, 2020Iron Contributor
Thanks martinnn that you bring this back to attention, thought I'm the only one who misses these features. I reported most of your points to the developer team almost half a year ago, but somehow lost hope that they'll fix it in the near future. Well, at least sorting favs in the favourites manager and invoking the touch keyboard with finger and pen finally works now.
May I add a few additional items to your list:
- Text selection is very uncommon (tap and hold instead of single touch) and extremely unstable. I often can't select anything anymore or the whole page freezes when working with text selection, especially when the page is accidentially zoomed.
- On larger text inputs the whole inputsection doesn't move up when you click into a lower section (eg GMX mail interface) , so the cursor is halfway or completely hidden by the virtual keyboard and you have to scroll manually or type blind.
- The fullscreen dropdown of the the tab- and addressbar (edge://flags/#edge-enable-shy-ui) doesn't show when swiping in with the finger, only with pen or mouse. This makes fullscreen-mode completely useless for touch users. And even worse, it is extremely unstable and freezes the whole browser almost every time you click on a tab.
Well, I'm pretty curious if we'll see some improvements on that soon, keeping in mind that now more than 30% of Windows-based devices are tablets or touch-enabled convertibles. Edge will not be a success with that lack of touch optimization.
Best regards