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Intuitive??
Authored by: MadTom1999 on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT
some 30 years ago or so I used a tablet based CAD workstation that allowed you
to program gestures. It had a lot built in - you could 'write' a Z on the screen
and it would zoom in on the area the Z was drawn on. Write the Z backwards and
you zoomed out in the reverse way.
It was very easy to use - not intuitive as it was massively more complicated
(huge context dependencies) than modern interfaces. But hugely usable - makes
the iPhone look antediluvian. I've just played with some javascript an you can
do it in the browser with relative ease too! The basic 'trick' is to take the
written symbol and scale it onto a grid and work out the order the symbol
crossed grid lines and map that to the commands of your choice.
Just to make sure this is in the public domain as its pre-internet and someone
might just patent it...

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Intuitive??
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 11:24 PM EDT
It's probably picking up a double-tap that's causing the zoom.
If you double-tap on some text in a web browser, it tries to
zoom to make the width of the text fit the display (similar to
one of Apple's patents ['163]).

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