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While essentially just emulating a standard mouse and requiring no major technical adaptations per se, touchscreens have a few implications which developers and designers should account for:

• Screen Resolution
  Touchscreen users often use low screen resolutions such as 640x or 800x to increase the size and accessibility of clickable areas and prevent erroneous ‘clicks’. Pages which do not render fully in smaller viewports and require use of scrollbars will present barriers. Lower viewport widths should be supported without horizontal scrolling and in-page navigation using anchors employed to mitigate requirements to interact with vertical scrollbars or a keyboard.
• Button/Icon/Hotspot sizes
  Since the hand and finger can often obscure the display during interaction, use of very small buttons, icons and links in close proximity should be avoided
• Mouse Button/Click Behaviour
  In many circumstances actions should be mapped to mouse button press rather than release events – eg in Flash using the onPress rather than the default onRelease event handler will most often be required for time critical operations such as within games.