> By contrast, there is no such direct link between mouse (or touch) and the document, only a transient link via the document's current presentation. It need n

> By contrast, there is no such direct link between mouse (or touch) and the document, only a transient link via the document's current presentation. It need not be this way. It's simply an utter lack of imagination on part of modern peripheral makers. I had a touchstream keyboard and after a bit of work I had emacs integration that was absolutely fantastic and involved semantic gestures. There is nothing fundamentally flawed about suggesting that gestures could be semantically meaningful.