quite old but its a really good experiment, while clicking seems fine for now, its a nightmare a lot of the time on touch screen interfaces, even clicking with my trackpad is annoying. while its not completely without its annoyances, considering the limitations it handles itself pretty well, and is certainly a worthwhile experiment.
It was a very good experiment; it proved to me it's a bad idea and could never work. No sarcasm. Negative results are results. It's demo-ware. Part of what I mean by that term are things that look good in the demo, but it turns out the demo is pushing the idea to the very limits. A demo of a good idea by necessity can only scratch the surface, not exhaust the idea. With demoware, it only works as long as you don't br…
see the iphone, a usual way of scrolling it to click somewhere around the scrollbar, that obviously sucks especially on a small touch screen, so they use clickless gestures.
while this experiment may not have directly influenced the iphone devs, it may have, and its in the same direction.
our interfaces are terrible at the moment, anything that pushes innovation into smarter ways of working with computers is good in my book.
I do agree that as a demo they pushed it to its limits, and that a lot of the cases its impractical, but there are positive lessons to be learnt that can be applied in real situations (like the iphone)