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Re: 360Cities.net
AYRTON 2010-Feb-18 02:02:00
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Bert Knops <#removed#> wrote:
> Consider the process of walking:
> You put your foot forwards and drag the world underneath yourself as
> you move forward.
> Once you get used to it, it's totally intuitive. Google dragging is
> like walking.
>
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sorry I could not resist
this was so funny :-0)
oh my God !!!
AYRTON
>
> Regards,
>
> Bert
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Pat Swovelin <#removed#
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 2/12/2010 3:13 AM, Aldo Hoeben's hamster got loose on the keyboard
> > and typed ...:
> >
> > >> Think of dragging the slider to control the view of *any* browser
> > >> viewport ever invented or any document that needs to be repositioned.
> > >>
> > > Do you see sliders or scrollbars on either sides of a VR panorama?
> > > Your analogy does not quite work.
> >
> > The analogy is to go down you drag down. When you want to see the
> > things to the right of you do you look right or drag everything in front
> > of your eyes?
> >
> >
> > > The analogy that Google is using is Google Maps. Is dragging maps
> around
> > > in google maps unintuitive? Now compare that to dragging a panorama.
> >
> > You're not dragging the panorama you're dragging the window.
> >
> >
> > > I am not saying that is a perfect analogy (there is no such thing as a
> > > perfect analogy), but Google took one model (google maps style
> dragging)
> > > and stuck with it.
> >
> > Incorrectly IMHO. Apparently Google is incapable of change.
> >
> >
> > >> Google has lowered the expectations of an entire planet.
> > >>
> > > Was it Google who did that, or was it Apple?
> >
> > I'll be shot if I answer that question.
> >
> >
> > > On a side-note: I personally like apple-style navigation better than
> > > google-style. Because I've come to know apple-style before
> google-style.
> > > I am not saying one is better than the other. Fortunately this whole
> > > discussion is going away eventually, because computing will be more
> > > physically interactive (ie: navigating by handling the device (think
> > > Wii, iPhone, etc), as opposed to what we've come to know as "direct
> > > manipulation" with a mouse which is in fact as indirect as indirect can
> > > get.)
> >
> > And when that happens you'll move right to look right ... just like we
> > do now.
> >
> > Too bad Google doesn't get that concept.
> >
> > KT, are you listening?
> >
> >
> > Pat Swovelin
> > Cool Guy @ Large
> >
> >
> >
>
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