Thanks Fred.

All this touchy swipey stuff is highly experimental, and will evolve
over time. I wanted to do a little work on this to steep myself in the
capabilities of touch events, which are a new area for me, and so to
help me think of the UI from a touch perspective.

I should also emphasise that these features are currently somewhat
undiscoverable, and so I'm treating them rather as the touch
equivalent of keyboard shortcuts, features that needs to be shown or
explained. Hopefully I can make them easy to learn once experienced by
making them engaging and natural.

I remain very excited about touch interfaces. Talking to a computer
with a keyboard and mouse always felt a bit like poking at something
with a long stick through a narrow slot; touch puts you in direct
control with high bandwidth and high precision. We think of touch as
being a mismatched interface for text applications, but it seems that
we spend most of our time navigating and reading text. Perhaps even
the time we spend writing text is mostly about rearranging it.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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On 17 Mar 2012, at 16:47, FND <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> the Dolphin creator had the same idea before you.
>>> Menu, bookmark, history are accessible with a left slide, and tools
>>> are accessible with a right slide.
>>
>> Ha! Does the right hand side of the screen have a similar function
>> defined?
>
> As I understood Phil, sliding on the right-hand side brings up a tools menu.
>
> Either way, Android's browser has an experimental mode (on tablets
> anyway; it's called Quick Controls IIRC) where you can slide in from
> either side to get a menu. I assume that would conflict as well.
>
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