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From: James Dore on 2 Aug 2010 10:18 On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:07:15 +0100, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk>: > > [...] > >> You really do have to try it to see it working. What I have taken ten >> minutes trying to describe (poorly) will be obvious in an instant when >> you >> get your fingers on one. > > Thanks very much for taking the time to write this. > > I do agree that the multitouch stuff (scrolling on web pages in > particular) does sound very handy when I think about. The only problem > for me is that I do sometimes use drawing packages (Illustrator and Flash > in particular, and sometimes Photoshop too), so it may not be a good fit > for me all of the time. Yes, I think Apple realise this - they are quite clear that you can use the trackpad alongside a mouse, as well as replacing one. The software is written to take account of this. > I will give one a whirl next time I'm brave/wealthy enough to set foot > inside an Apple store. > >> [1] - We had a presentation from Apple at our recent Oxford IT Support >> Staff conference, where they were talking about multitouch. One of the >> throwaway comments that intruiged me was that " we have eleven possible >> contact areas in our multitouch toolkit, our competitors have at most >> three." So: that's all ten fingers aaaaannnnnd......?! > > Fnarr. Quite. The most charitable explanation I could come up with was that a programmer decided "we'll have max + 1 contact points". I hope that's what it was. Otherwise, um, like, eew. Cheers, James -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
From: Tony Finch on 13 Aug 2010 10:40
"James Dore" <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >>> [1] - We had a presentation from Apple at our recent Oxford IT Support >>> Staff conference, where they were talking about multitouch. One of the >>> throwaway comments that intruiged me was that " we have eleven possible >>> contact areas in our multitouch toolkit, our competitors have at most >>> three." So: that's all ten fingers aaaaannnnnd......?! >> >> Fnarr. > >Quite. The most charitable explanation I could come up with was that a >programmer decided "we'll have max + 1 contact points". I hope that's what >it was. Otherwise, um, like, eew. One advantage of tracking more contact points than the user intends to use is to deal with accidental contact from e.g. the ball of the thumb. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ SHANNON ROCKALL: NORTHWEST, BACKING SOUTHWEST FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD. |