Hi Brian, I personally like touch and hold better, since tap would seem to indicate a completed action, whereas touch would keep contact into the hold phase of the interaction. As these interfaces develop, so will the vocabulary we use to describe them. The verbs drag and drop had slightly different meanings prior to the popularization of the mouse interface; I expect similar distinctions will develop as we become familiar with touch interfaces.
Cheers, bob On 2012-06-18, at 3:05 PM, Joey K Tuttle wrote: > There is definitely a difference between "tap" and "touch" if you > consider touch to be a longer action. As an example, taping the comma > key produces a , (of course) but touching it (longer than a tap) > produces a ' - which is a handy thing to have since otherwise it > requires shifting keyboards to get the quote. > > I imagine there is a summary of these things somewhere, maybe someone > has a pointer to them. > > On 2012/06/18 11:12 , Eric Iverson wrote: >> I've been a bit careless in my terminology and I don't know what the >> official line is. Advice appreciated. I prefer tap to touch as it is >> shorter. >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Also, are there synonyms for other gestures like hold, pinch, etc? Is >>> there an official link for this? >>> >>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
