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JQuery gestures
- rickharrison 18y agoThat is most definitely the coolest thing I've seen using JavaScript in a while.
- moe 18y agoSeconded. Unfortunately this is one of those technologies that you hardly ever get a chance to actually apply in a real project.
- ed 18y agoWe implemented gestures in an early version of ipaper. Unfortunately it wasn't very usable. The physical analog -- swiping pages -- is far more comfortable than the same motion with a mouse. Incidentally we chose to watch cursor acceleration (removing the mouse-down step), which simplifies the gesture.
- ensignavenger 18y agoI think it would be much more comfortable, and useful, if the user were using a touch screen, and could use gestures on the screen. If someone were viewing ipaper on the iPhone, that would be the way to go for navigation.
- ed 18y agoI totally agree. Gestures on the iPhone work well because your hand is resting in a natural position. This is more or less true with track pads as well. If you're going to support mouse gestures, the system must be sensitive enough to act on small, finger-driven, movements. That is, the user must be able to gesture without moving their wrist.
- alexk 18y agoGestures: [Press Ctrl] + Click + Drag Old style navigation: Click It's not hard to guess the winner
- 3ds 18y agoSometimes it's nice not to have to search for the little button and press it that opens the next mail or goes to the next picture, but simply do a quick gesture. GMail actually has a labs setting for that. I use gestures for navigation all the time, as a firefox plugin, so i don't have to press the back arrow, but simply do a quick gesture. It's much faster, for me anyways.
- Hexstream 18y ago"Sometimes it's nice not to have to search for the little button and press it that opens the next mail or goes to the next picture" Beats having to go look at the documentation to determine what gesture corresponds to the action you want to accomplish. Also, with gestures it seems to me there aren't very many intuitive gesture/action matches... I can only think of: left = go back right = go forward circle = reload X = delete left, right, up, down = pan in that direction There's certainly others but not a lot I think.
- run4yourlives 18y agoFor a web page, you're exactly right, but imagine a functional app that you use every day. If you've done any amount of user research, you know that thigh-speed users hate using the keyboard and mouse at the same time. For most instances keyboard is king, but for a few, using a mouse exclusively is a great benefit...browsing pictures, for example. (Just FYI I clicked to turn them on and didn't need to use Ctrl)
- Calamitous 18y ago"thigh-speed" users? I've dealt with some unusual users, but this sounds like it could be interesting... :)
- jacoblyles 18y agoI don't like that you have to click for the gesture and that enabling gestures disables clicking on normal links. Other than that, I think it is pretty cool. I have seen things like this before, but never in such an easy-to-copy javascript implementation.
- biaxident 18y agoWhilst this is nice, some of the gestures are far too complicated. Moving between pictures is intuitive (similar to iPhone etc) but the other actions aren't necessary. I don't look forward to the day where I have to remember four gestures just to change a help menu.
- jye 18y agoI guess it is here just to show the power behind the plugin. I agree with you, there is no reason to implement such a complicated way to toggle help. But enabling up/down/left/right to navigate through images is sufficient and intuitive (and awesome). And that's why this plugin is all about no ?
- marcusbooster 18y agoI think the idea was to draw a letter 'h' for help.
- scotth 18y agoOr a question mark.
- windsurfer 18y agoYou, sir, draw a very strange question mark.
- mhb 18y agoSo maybe they could say to draw an 'h' starting from the top left.
- rickharrison 18y agoThe thought process behind this is the same as shortcuts. It provides advanced users with increased learnability and memorability design principles. After a user becomes accustomed to the application they can use these gestures much more quickly then finding their respective navigation.
- ObieJazz 18y agoThey better be careful or Apple is going to sue them for violating their patent on swipe direction detection.
- mikecuesta 18y agoI envision this being very useful for allowing touch features on a website - like a webapp on a tablet.
- trezor 18y agoAmong all the awe here, I might add that this thing breaks horribly if you already have mouse gestures in your browser. I'm not uninstalling Firefox extensions to use a webpage proper. Not today, and not any day soon. While I'm sure it's all cool tech, I personally hope this kinda thing will not take off ever.
- ams6110 18y agoDidn't work at all in my browser (Safari 3.2.1)