From: 0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net
Date: Sat Feb 11 2006 - 10:46:02 PST
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:53:17AM -0500, Harry Teasley wrote:
> Your finger's mushiness both inhibits great precision, and makes it
> extremely difficult to determine what was a real touch, versus what
> was an accidental touch. Accidental touches in a multi-point touch UI
> will be the main problem, because there's less ability to prioritize
> one touch over another as being the "real" touch, because both of them
> could be intentional.
I must admit I haven't been following this thread very closely, but in terms of
a multi-point touchpad, Apple's already released one. The touchpad on my new
Powerbook (12" PPC 1.5GHz) not only detects a multi-point touch and prevents
the mouse pointer from going insane like it used to, if you drag a two-finger
touch it'll scroll whatever your mouse is over - up/down, left/right, even
diagonally!
I *LOVE* that feature. No more trying to hit the little bitty scroll bar with
(as Harry pointed out) a very mushy input.
-Rhonda
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