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Honestly, I don't think this is as difficult of a problem as we think. Has anybody tried scrolling in Windows UWP/Modern/RT apps with a precision touchpad? It's

Honestly, I don't think this is as difficult of a problem as we think. Has anybody tried scrolling in Windows UWP/Modern/RT apps with a precision touchpad? It's just as glorious. In fact, I've read many accounts of people who use pre-Chromium Edge just for the scrolling experience. Microsoft also ported this scrolling algorithm/profile to Chromium Edge, even if it's slightly less responsive (probably limited by win32) If you don't like the scrolling in UWP it probably has more to do with it's acceleration graph than its capability. That, and macOS seem to just make their UI animations way smoother than anything I've seen on Windows and Linux. The Windows desktop switching and "expose" animation kills me every time it janks. I don't know what's stopping Microsoft from porting this scrolling behavior to Win32, and to be fair it seem like they tried (scrolling in Explorer is noticeably different on a precision touchpad even though not as smooth) but probably they're held back by backward compatibility or that it's too much of an effort to make that pig fly.

azinman2 6y ago
I wouldn’t conflate someone else doing something you like with difficulty.
- harrygeez 6y ago
  well most of the posts here somewhat suggests this is a difficult problem that only Apple has the resources and desire to solve
  - azinman2 6y ago
    Microsoft is not lacking in resources or motivation. It’s still a hard problem regardless.
ghostpepper 6y ago
My understanding about the smoothness of the animations in MacOS is that the animations interpolate along the gesture, versus being triggered only when the gesture is considered complete and thus registered.
- harrygeez 6y ago
  Windows does that too, at least for desktop switching. It's above that actually, the way Apple implemented animations in general using Core Animations looks much smoother than Windows or Gnome in my experience.

azinman2 6y ago

I wouldn’t conflate someone else doing something you like with difficulty.

harrygeez 6y ago
well most of the posts here somewhat suggests this is a difficult problem that only Apple has the resources and desire to solve
- azinman2 6y ago
  Microsoft is not lacking in resources or motivation. It’s still a hard problem regardless.

ghostpepper 6y ago

My understanding about the smoothness of the animations in MacOS is that the animations interpolate along the gesture, versus being triggered only when the gesture is considered complete and thus registered.

harrygeez 6y ago
Windows does that too, at least for desktop switching. It's above that actually, the way Apple implemented animations in general using Core Animations looks much smoother than Windows or Gnome in my experience.