From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <23f6632199b307d972186454dc562d68@9netics.com> References: <23f6632199b307d972186454dc562d68@9netics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <15D96033-0977-4C28-81A6-D85D22F85B6A@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] The Misused Mouse Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:43:42 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 93edfbc0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGkroepJeHo/Fbu1wRAkM3AJ4nraJoQpABzGGMqPnuBnXEMHzp8wCbBYH4 AsZGQYDViZCEALk4ILB4UZk= =9Jvq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----