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Re: 360Cities.net
Pat Swovelin 2010-Feb-12 11:32:00
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