On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote:
> The drafting table orientation has been optimal for long work sessions for > centuries, so it seems inevitable that as computer form factors continue to > diversify we'll see an increasing number of those. > > An iMac that tilts all the way back doesn't seem to hard to envisage. > > The bigger question is precision: occupying only a single pixel, the > action point of a mouse makes it significantly more precise than any finger > can be. But that's ultimately a software design issue, not an inherent > flaw in the nature of touch devices as a whole. > > Which has been addressed in iOS already. If I prod my finger long enough on some text the magnifying glass pops up and I can more precisely position the insertion point. Clearly something similar could happen with graphics programs to magnify 100 fold, a pixel becomes 10x10 pixels. Which brings us all the way back to HC which had something similar in it's image editor. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
