With multitouch? Craptastic, of course. Multitouch requires one of two things:
- the touch surface is NOT the display surface (e.g. it's a keyboard- wide trackpad that's below the keyboard and uses absolute coordinates instead of the relative coordinates that trackpads use, and somehow knows the difference between you just resting your wrists and actually using it) - the screen is below you. Go ahead. Try it. Point at stuff on your screen for 40 seconds. Notice how tired your arms are? Now do that for 8 hours. It boggles the mind that so many people are excited about, and so many companies investing in, the notion that you touch a monitor that's in front of you. On an iPad this would be fun, but you really run into the cramped screen real estate problem. Presumable with the pinch-zoom gesture you could 'zoom' into a bubble and zoom right out again very quickly, but part of the charm would be lost (that charm being: That relevant info is around the periphery even when you're typing). On a gigantic all-touch-screen table this might be really interesting though :) On Mar 14, 7:00 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm...what would this be like with multi-touch? That might get > interesting. > > I remember JG talking about visual bandwidth in IDEs. I think that > this may require an upgrade in my bandwidth. :) > > LES -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
