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It may be premature to say that it's neat just for the sake of neatness. It may not have a direct UI usage, but we could probably learn something about mouse ev
by mkn 18y ago
It may be premature to say that it's neat just for the sake of neatness. It may not have a direct UI usage, but we could probably learn something about mouse events and drawing by examining the code, for example. Also, from a UI perspective, you migh be able to make mousing more efficient by dragging UI elements around in a cloud around the mouse. (You could fade them out so that they were just barely visible, for example, until you right-clicked or shift-right-clicked to pin them down and use them.) It looked, at first glance, like the effect was running on a Canvas, so I don't know how easy it would be to do outside of one.
Also, call it mkn's first law: There's always something you're overlooking. (Where 'you' is the hypothetical you, not you in particular.) :o)
- contextmenu 18y agoWe have that, it's called a context menu.
- sutro 18y agoWe've all heard of single serving sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=399941 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=399941. Here the parent commenter is pioneering the latest incarnation of the trend: the single serving HN account.
- captainobvious 18y agoSomeone quick! Find a phone and call captain obvious.
- mkn 18y agoI guess my point was that it would be a translucent cloud of items that followed the mouse. This way, you'd be able to see/read what was under the cloud but could switch your attention to the translucent cloud to see what was there. Context menus are invisible until you right-click. Also, there's been some evidence that we remember the locations of things better if they're arranged radially (like the demo approximates) rather than orthogonally (like in a context menu). A combination of a translucent constant reminders of tasks available plus a radial arrangement of those tasks floating around the mouse might make it easy to remember what's available after a right-click. It might be distracting as hell, for all I know. One thing's for sure, it would be more than just a context menu as we know them now.
- jyothi 18y agothis can get close to iphone interface of google earth on a normal browser.
- MoeDrippins 18y agoIn this case, "you" IS me in particular. I'm slow on the uptake more often than I'd prefer. =) Thanks for the comment; I hadn't thought of much of that.