Can anyone tell me if they have successfully used the HP TouchPad Tablet to utilize the Skritter website for studying purposes? If so, could you describe your experience? Is the process of touching the screen smooth and natural, etc.?

The HP TouchPad is now on sale for $99 at HP's website, so if it works with Skritter, I was thinking that it may be a bargain... Would be useless to me, though, if it didn't work with Skritter...

http://www.hp.com/united-states/webos/us/en/shopping-touchpad.html

Many thanks!
James

I think it will probably work with Skritter, although I might have to make some changes so that it will recognize your finger input as writing rather than scrolling the page. I'll be interested to see how they've done the Flash integration.

Thanks for the quick response, Nick. Much appreciated. Would you be able to get your hands on an HP TouchPad Tablet to test it? I'd prefer not to purchase a unit, unless it will work with Skritter, as I'd be making the purchase really only for that purpose. If you are not able to get access to a unit, then if you'd like, I'd be willing to go halvzies with you and would agree to send you $50 by PayPal if you're willing to purchase one of the $99 models from HP and test it. You'd get to keep the unit, naturally, and you'd just be obligated to test it and then let me know whether or not it works (or if it can be made to work with some tinkering perhaps?), and if it does end up working well, then I'd go ahead and buy my own unit. If that sounds reasonable, maybe we could chat a bit more offline at your convenience? Cheers!

That's a very generous offer. Let me see if anyone around here has one that I could test on, though. It probably won't take me very long to make any necessary changes, if I need to make any at all.

HP are quitting the tablet business so I don't see much upside. Tegra2 dualcore tabs aren't too great with skritter so the HP won't be great either... there are a lot of people waiting on some ipad/iPhone version news nick.....

I'll have some tasty Skritter iOS app news soon. I almost don't want to show you guys, because then you'll be even more desperate for me to finish it after seeing how sweet it's going to be.

Thanks, Nick (and Neil). Very much appreciated. Offer still stands, Nick, but if the iOS app may be ready soon, I might as well hold off on an android tablet, as I have an iPhone4, and iPad (1&2). By the way, if you need a beta tester for your app on all of the aforementioned devices, please give me a shout. I think I offered way back in the day, but allow me to kindly reiterate my enthusiasm in that regard.

Hello. Was there enough time to see if Skritter could be optimized for the HP Touchpad Tablet? I tried it out last night and it had problems recognizing the strokes I was using with my finger. Thanks in advance.

I haven't found anyone around here who has one yet, PY.

PY, try this link on it to see if the same trick we used for Android makes the stroke recognition go on WEbOS:

http://www.skritter.com/scratchpad?android=true&tablet=true

Did somebody test if skritter works on the HP touchpad with these settings? I am also thinking about buying one and would be very interested to hear if it works.

Not yet. In this thread, a user tested a Chinese version of the HP Touchpad, but its built-in Chinese handwriting recognition interfered with a test of Skritterability:

http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=123387207