From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 13:05:11 PDT
Nicolas Roard wrote:
> On 9/16/05, Karel Jansens <kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be> wrote:
>
>>>Actually, there's HWR. But apparently it's not a cursive HWR.
>>
>>=20
>>Yes, I just discovered that too. I hereby publicly apologize to Nokias
>>770 everywhere for doubting their HWR capabilities.
>>=20
>>On that note: does anyone on the list have any intel on that particular
>>HWR? I'm very keen on Linux-based HWR (since there basically is none --
>>yet).
>
>
> It's apparently a proprietary HWR. Can't say more, I don't have a 770 (yet)=
> :-)
> and the developer site don't really talk about it.
>
> I must add that what's cool with the Newton, particularly in the notepad, i=
> s
> how the UI really takes advantage of the pen (like scribble to erase someth=
> ing).
>
> In my opinion, what is lacking on current PDA UIs is pen gestures.. to
> have the UI beeing more intuitive because of the pen, and not just
> consider the pen as some kind of mouse..
Yes and no. I do like the fact that the Sony Ericsson P910 can be used
equally easily by pen and by "hand" (using the 5-way rocker). As with
most things computer, it's mainly a matter of being consistent and
redundant: the same action gives you the same result everytime and
things can be done in more than one way. Both NewtonOS and Symbian are
good (although not convergent) examples of that philosophy.
> I don't think that will really change with the Nokia, although you
> could probably use/adapt some kind of mouse gesture application (there
> are a couple existing for linux). But well, it won't be as good as
> beeing able to scribble to delete something :) -- for that you need
> something more integrated at the toolkit level imho.
Not necessarily, PenOffice does a nice job on the Windows desktop and it
emulates nothing more complicated than a mouse and a keyboard.
Karel Jansens
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