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

[From: Eric Warnke]

2 finger scrolling is not a feature unique to multi-touch.  It's been
available for older track pads for years.

-Eric

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Darius Jack <dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> 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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