8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
7:45 a.m.
Quoth Trent Buck on or about 2004-06-08:
- Buttons are around the edge. It has been shown by HCI folks that this is a far better design than the toolkit approach. I forget the name of the rule, but it states that you can click screen corners and edges far faster than, say, 10px in from the edge.
Found it: Fitts' Law. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Fitts%27%20law
-t
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The next thing Apple will introduce is the one-button keyboard; you type
by morsing the ASCII codes of the letter you want to write.