Yes, please! I'd love to have a nice bluetooth multi-touch pad to use on Safari and throughout OS X. A nice heavy piece of glass that rests on your desk....
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Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta Adds Multi-Touch Support
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Yes, please! I'd love to have a nice bluetooth multi-touch pad to use on Safari and throughout OS X. A nice heavy piece of glass that rests on your desk....
LOL
So true. I play with my MBP Al and when I get back to my old iBook I keep wandering: where the heck are those scroll bars again...
(That's actually one of the reason I got back to Safari)
...Sure, it's 'hip' but I think it will die out much like the digital tablet has - to obscurity.
Give me a well thought out tree of commands with context sensitive drop-downs, and a mouse.
I give it one finger - guess which one.
Rich
Sure, whatever... Let's talk about that "dying technology" in 5 years...
Oh I hated those things. Interesting term you use.
I do like Multi-touch. My whitebook is lacking some of the features of the newer macbooks, but what I do have I like. Better than a mouse, and I use my wacom for more precise things.
They are actually called nipples.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nipple-mouse.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nipple mouse
I could not disagree more. Especially with this new FF beta, I've been playing with it all day long, and you don't have to twist 90°. 45° at most. It's very easy and now I can only think how I lived without this feature.
Thanks FireFox! I was an original recruit and continue to chose you over Safari
Did you read the whole post? The gesture stuff was simply the Mac-specific part. You can read the release notes to see all that's going on, and remember this is just a Beta release currently. There's things like the Private Browsing, new ways to work with your History, further support for HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript, etc. And in general you should go install updates as they almost always include security updates.
I would sooo buy one of those.... come on Apple, I grow tired of the Mighty Mouse.... BRING ON THE MAXI PAD!!!
ok you got me there
I guess seeing what my other passion is, and living in the bible belt, we just did not use that term. I just could not see telling a computer user (especially a woman) to slightly move the nipple.I like what one of your websites had for tag for it "Pointless accessory", because you could not do any precise pointing or drawing with it. What I do not understand is why some laptops had that and a trad pad, and why Lenovo (formally IBM) still makes laptops with it.
Apple needs to join forces with wacom and come up with a tablet and track pad that dws both multi-touch and also what the wacom already does...
NOW THERE IS A DEVICE TO TALK ABOUT!!!!
Pixel scrolling is now in Firefox 3.1, so fixed. Scrolls smoother than Safari.
Pixel scrolling is now in Firefox 3.1, so fixed. Scrolls smoother than Safari.
Very True...Just tested it. It is exactly the same!
Do you have another complaint about FF?
Or is the "smooth scrolling" difference the ONLY reason you love safari so much more?
Because that argument has now been thrown out.
I've used some utility to have multitouch on my browsers for a while, and I've found that zoom in/out gestures are too easy to activate while scrolling. Everything else is extremely quick, and has improved my browsing experience.
Swipe down= Close tab
Swipe up= Open last closed tab (command+shift+t, to fix any accidental downswipes)
Twist right= Next tab to the right
Twist left= Next tab to the left
Swipe right= back
Swipe left= forward
Swipe down= Close tab
Swipe up= Open last closed tab (command+shift+t, to fix any accidental downswipes)
Twist right= Next tab to the right
Twist left= Next tab to the left
Swipe right= back
Swipe left= forward
This is News?
Ummmm... if anyone here paid any attention to technology other than what Apple is doing they would know that HP has been making mulit-touch tablet PCs for some time now that support these commands on a Vista-based PC with *any* browser. Get a grip Apple lovers. Apple catching up to the rest of the industry doesn't qualify as front page news, doesn it?
Ummmm... if anyone here paid any attention to technology other than what Apple is doing they would know that HP has been making mulit-touch tablet PCs for some time now that support these commands on a Vista-based PC with *any* browser. Get a grip Apple lovers. Apple catching up to the rest of the industry doesn't qualify as front page news, doesn it?
I would love to see some swiping for my iPhone's safari. It's such a pain to close windows or switch between them quickly. MultiClutch for iPhone?
Firefox has had the back/forward swipes with two fingers since Fx2 (quite a while ago). Hold command and swipe with two fingers. Not as elegant since it still requires the keyboard, but I always have my left hand on the keyboard and my right on the trackpad.
Also, I suspect you could use multiclutch to fill in the gaps anyway.
Yes, but when HP/Windows gets a technology, why should we care? We don't use it. This site is about announcing new things for Apple fans, not just general technology. Your argument would work on Digg or Slashdot, as this may not really be news there, but it is certainly valid and welcome news here.
Firefox has had the back/forward swipes with two fingers since Fx2 (quite a while ago). Hold command and swipe with two fingers. Not as elegant since it still requires the keyboard, but I always have my left hand on the keyboard and my right on the trackpad.
Also, I suspect you could use multiclutch to fill in the gaps anyway.
Yes, but when HP/Windows gets a technology, why should we care? We don't use it. This site is about announcing new things for Apple fans, not just general technology. Your argument would work on Digg or Slashdot, as this may not really be news there, but it is certainly valid and welcome news here.
the features are awesome but there's too many bugs. I had to roll back this afternoon because of the problems.
I'm sure. Using multiclutch, you can configure the rotate gestures to switch between tabs in Safari. You just have to set it up so CMD + } is associated with rotating right, and CMD + { is rotate left.
What type of bugs are you experiencing? I haven't noticed any, and I've been using it all day.
