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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-04-30 , 20:24
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#38
Originally Posted by maacruz View Post
It is not cool, it is ergonomic.
It is cool. There is no need for the image to 'coast'. You could land at the extrapolated end position immediately, just as page up or page down does not need to animate the scroll. Kinetic, as in animated method of scrolling, is meant to be cool.

Kinetic makes very easy and efficient to move through a page bigger than the screen, by using a very natural hand/wrist movement. Methods like pushing buttons on those tiny devices force the fingers to adopt non natural positions or angles while applying force, which in turn causes tendon strain, and pain in the end.
This is plain wrong. You cannot compare two specific implementations and draw conclusions about the physical interfaces in general. If it has a button, it must cause strain and if it's a stylus/finger it never does that ? Doesn't sound plausible to me at all.

Non kinetic scrolling with the stylus like microb is very suboptimal, since moving through a big page takes a very long
Again, there are not just two ways of scrolling content. See pyqtoreader - it's faster and more precise than kinetic scrolling. Kinetic is just hero of the day, there are plenty other methods of scrolling (stylus based or other) that can replace it one day (given apple does a fancy implementation of them )

Finally, kinetic scrolling allows more feedback because the user sees a continuous flow of the page, with a speed response similar to what is expected in the "physical" world (that is why it seems "cool")
Umm, and you cannot do continuous 'flow' scrolling with scrollbars, buttons, drag-zooms, or other methods ? I'm afraid I don't get it.
 

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