I KNOW WHAT IT IS. On the iPad and the iPod you are using a touchscreen so the idiom is different from a touchpad, and I think that's perfectly cromulent.
Sorry. Don't know why that a) took so long b) came out so forcefully.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
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§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 11:51:18 am PDT #17379 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2011 11:54:06 am PDT #17380 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Why should a touchpad be different? Wouldn't it be easier for new users if it weren't?
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 11:58:06 am PDT #17381 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
First off, I hate new users. They're the reason for the MS Office ribbon and why I can't find anything.
Secondly, I have no reason to assume a touchpad and a touchscreen need to behave the same--I want a touchpad to behave like a mouse (I guess it's the scroll wheel movement) BECAUSE I'M OLD, and I want a touchscreen to move the things on the screen where I put them with my finger.
Stephanie - Aug 03, 2011 12:05:09 pm PDT #17382 of 25501
Trust my rage
ita is exactly right! One is the screen an the other reminds me of a mouse.
(ok, that has been bothering me)
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2011 12:24:33 pm PDT #17383 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
But mice have always been backwards, too! If you push up on a scroll wheel, the window moves down!
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 12:35:23 pm PDT #17384 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scroll bar. Drag that down, screen goes up. I am going to make sense eventually.
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2011 12:38:09 pm PDT #17385 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Mice aren't backwards. You push up on the wheel and the viewport moves up, push down and the viewport moves down.
Touch makes sense too, you're dragging the document instead of moving the viewport.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2011 12:40:54 pm PDT #17386 of 25501
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Megan- I sent it to your profile address- I hope you got them
megan walker - Aug 03, 2011 12:57:46 pm PDT #17387 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Thanks, I'm using them already!
I actually have to create content grids for my first project already and with basic things like finding "save as" taking forever I was a bit worried about looking like an idiot. (Not that that won't happen anyway.)
Steph L. - Aug 03, 2011 1:21:30 pm PDT #17388 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I KNOW WHAT IT IS. On the iPad and the iPod you are using a touchscreen so the idiom is different from a touchpad, and I think that's perfectly cromulent.
I had to dig out my iPod and scroll on it, then on my laptop's trackpad, then the iPod, then the laptop, before I realized that YES, you DO scroll differently on them! I just internalized it so completely that I didn't even realize it's opposite gestures.