Optimization schemes for controlling user interfaces through gesture or touch

A computing system for transforming a browser event into a semantic event comprehensible by an application hosted by a browser and executed by a remote server, the computing system comprising:

• a memory storing computer-executable instructions of:
• receiving, from the browser, a browser event generated in response to a user input received via an interface of an application outputted by the browser, the browser event representing an input configured to initiate a browser action to handle a selection with an operating system of the computing device, wherein the browser action is browser or computing system dependent;
• upon receiving the browser event, determining, whether the received browser event matches a predetermined input event corresponds to a semantic event of the application, the semantic event representing a command comprehensible by the application executed by the remote server;
• providing, to the application executed on the remote server, the semantic event from the computing system and via a computer network;
• cancelling, in the browser, the browser event to prevent the browser action from being performed on the computing system;
• receiving, via the computer network, an object generated by the application executed on the remote server in response to the command represented by the semantic event;
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• rendering, via the interface of the application in the browser, the received object generated by the application executed on the remote server in response to the semantic event;
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• a processor for executing the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory.

A method executed on a computing device for transforming browser events into a semantic event comprehensible by a web application executed by a remote server and hosted by a browser on the computing device, the method comprising:

• upon receiving, in response to a user input to a user interface of the application on the browser, a browser event representing an input configured to initiate a browser action that is browser dependent or computing device dependent,
• determining, at the computing device, whether the received browser event matches a predetermined input event corresponds to a semantic event of the application, the semantic event representing a command comprehensible by the application hosted by the browser and executed by the remote server;
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• in response to determining that the received browser event matches the predetermined input event,
• transmitting, from the computing device and via a computer network, the command represented by the semantic event to the remote server in lieu of performing the browser action on the computing device;
• receiving, via the computer network, an object generated by the application executed on the remote server in response to the command represented by the semantic event;
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• rendering, at the computing device and via the interface in the browser, the received object generated by the application in response to the user input in the browser on the computing device.