From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The Misused Mouse
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:43:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15D96033-0977-4C28-81A6-D85D22F85B6A@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23f6632199b307d972186454dc562d68@9netics.com>
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I'm just annoyed at the repeated fallacy that a pointing tablet &
stylus is better than the mouse. That's only true if the display is
the tablet - absolute position interfaces are very awkward to
navigate with when you're not looking at them.
Paul
On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>> http://hci-matters.com/blog/?p=8
>
> the mouse may be retired for the finger if done the iphone way
> (maybe). iphone is a cool gadget. i like the way magnification is
> controlled with two fingure motion.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-09 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-09 22:17 David Leimbach
2007-07-09 22:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-07-09 22:43 ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2007-07-10 13:52 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-07-09 22:45 ` john
2007-07-09 22:50 ` Paul Lalonde
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