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not quite: You directly press 'A' you get an 'A'. You want to move the cursor you directly press where you want it. In the model above you press this area of l
by greggman 15y ago
not quite: You directly press 'A' you get an 'A'. You want to move the cursor you directly press where you want it.
In the model above you press this area of letter buttons and slide your finger and some unrelated thing 'the cursor' moves around.
Maybe that's okay but it's not direct like the current UX
- wvenable 15y agoIt's sort of nick-picking at this point, but I don't think your point is valid. Sure you press an A and you get an A up where the cursor is. You swipe your finger and you get movement up where the cursor is. It's not really all that different.
- abalone 15y agoIt's night-and-day different. I think you confused "direct manipulation" with "nothing can happen elsewhere except where I tap." Direct manipulation UIs are about interactions that correspond to the physical world. Tapping on a virtual keyboard does exactly that. Swiping your finger across a virtual keyboard makes no sense at all. Anyway, turns out iOS already had faster text selection gestures and we just didn't know. (See hej's comment.)
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