Adobe AIR 2.0 & Flash 10.1 Support Multi-touch: I Wonder If They Run Fast Enough on a Netbook?

YouTube video courtesy of wooyaggo

If you have a netbook or notebook with a multi-touch touch screen running Windows, you might find this item from TechCrunch pretty interesting…

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 And AIR 2.0 – Both Include Multi-touch Support

The new Flash Player and AIR runtime both support multi-touch with gestures on touch screen devices (like maybe my Asus Eee PC T91MT running Windows 7?).

If you fast forward through to the 5 minute 10 second mark of the embedded YouTube video above, you can see multi-touch on an HP TouchSmart PC.

The touch support for both AIR and Flash looks quite good in the demo. Of course, most demos are desgined to look good. So…

It will be interesting to see how multitouch Flash and AIR apps run on a relatively low-power netbook. I’ve noticed, for example, that some of the Microsoft Surface demos pre-installed on my Eee PC T91MT multi-touch netbook run far too slowly to actually use on the netbook. If AIR and Flash’s multitouch feature runs efficiently on a netbook, Adobe will have a winner there.

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