[maemo-developers] Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented

[From: Darius Jack]

Sorry Simon, but it works as semi-multitouch.

I have discovered this feature opening my Semantic WWW Magazines
in maemo.
With 2 fingers pressed I can move Welcome page horizontally, like in iPod Touch.

Darius



--- On Tue, 2/9/08, Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> wrote:

> From: Simon Budig <simon at budig.de>
> Subject: Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented
> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Date: Tuesday, 2 September, 2008, 3:49 PM
> Darius Jack (dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie) wrote:
> > [...] N 770 ( first in the world multitouch Internet
> tablet). N 770
> > was really multitouch gizmo (just try to move web page
> with 2
> > fingers).
> 
> You're wrong here: what you're seeing when pressing
> multiple fingers on
> the touchscreen is some kind of "average"
> position. Typically the
> "mousepointer" ends up in the middle between the
> two fingers pressing
> the screen, just try it in the drawing application.
> 
> The scrolling in the webbrowser just made you believe that
> it would be
> doing something sensible, it really does not.
> 
> Bye,
>         Simon
> 
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