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2009-04-30 , 23:09
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
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.
That's nonsense. Without actually seeing what happens, it would be extremely hard to learn the amount of force required to land at the desired position. Moreover, regularly you have no idea where you want to scroll to, so you want to see the contents while they pass by. Last but not least, the animation allows you to stop the scrolling, when you see that you arrived at the desired position.

Like most animations in modern GUIs, the "wow factor" is merely a byproduct. Useless animations don't impress anybody anymore. But some people regard every animation as useless, and that's just plain wrong. Fortunately, not everybody is a UI designer.


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 )
Be that as it may, that doesn't change the fact that panning in the Diablo browser is not as ergonomic as kinetic panning. In a sense, kinetic panning is nothing but a refinement to normal page panning, as it gives you more options while still allowing you to "drag pan" only.

I can't install pyqtoreader right now, so that is not telling me anything. It would certainly be interesting to discuss alternative methods of scrolling, and especially which of them may be as universally useful and intuitive as kinetic panning.