Tablet

A tablet is a great middle ground: a big enough screen for real work, with touch for quick, direct editing. livediagram runs in the tablet's browser, no app needed, and adapts to how much screen room it has at the moment.

It adapts to your screen

livediagram chooses its layout from how wide the editor is on screen, not from the kind of device:

• With plenty of room (most tablets held in landscape, or any large tablet), you get the full layout, the same as a computer: the floating panels, hover helpers, and the Spotlight tool.
• On a narrow screen (a smaller tablet, or one held in portrait), it switches to the compact, touch-first layout described in the mobile guide, with the dock in place of the floating panels.

Rotating the tablet switches between the two, so if you want the full set of panels, turn it to landscape.

Touch works everywhere

However the tablet is held, the touch gestures are the same as on a phone: pinch to zoom, drag to move around, tap to select, and press and hold for an element's menu. Drag handles and buttons get extra padding on touch so they are easy to hit.

Add a keyboard for more

A few things are built for a physical keyboard. If you pair a keyboard with your tablet, they come back:

• Keyboard shortcuts for tools and actions like undo, copy, and duplicate.
• Held-key shortcuts, like Shift to keep an element's proportions while resizing, or to add to a selection.

Without a keyboard you can still do all of this through the palette and on-screen controls; a keyboard just adds the faster way.