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See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch Excerpts: A breakthrough occurred in 1991, when Pierre Wellner pu
by alok-g 15y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
Excerpts:
A breakthrough occurred in 1991, when Pierre Wellner published a paper on his multi-touch “Digital Desk”, which supported multi-finger and pinching motions.
... however both the function and the term predate the announcement or patent requests, except for such area of application as capacitive mobile screens, which did not exist before Fingerworks/Apple's technology
- tensor 15y agoIt's even worse, the pinch gesture goes back to 1983. [1] [1] http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html