Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set?

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 17, 2011 @03:33AM from the which-finger-does-what? dept.

dstates writes "As a mostly happy new iPad owner, I love having lots of apps, but I have got to ask, where is the universal set of gestures for navigation? Pinch and open mostly mean zoom out and in, but sometimes you tap to open, sometimes double tap. Sometimes right swipe is back, sometimes there is a back button, sometimes you just have to go to home and navigate back down. Reminds me of the early days of GUIs when every application had its own menu set with different top-level menus and different placement of various functions. Made life chaos for users. We have been there, done that, and gestures are much worse. At least with a menu, you had a printed tag you could read. Gestures are all magic handshakes until you know them. Seems like the tablet community should not have to learn the value of consistency all over again." What gestures would you like to see made standard in touch-based interfaces?

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Re:Too gay by Doc+Ruby · 2011-04-17 04:11 · Score: 0, Troll

Only a person who's gay but can't admit it would find a statement like that "too gay", because it's not gay at all. You are. Learn to enjoy it.

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Re:Too gay by Doc+Ruby · 2011-04-17 04:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah and a "fag" is a cigarette or a bundle of sticks. A "nigger" is just a person from Niger. Right.
You're a child playing word games. Probably gay, as in homosexual, too, but won't admit it. Hence the word games.

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