"Sean Kelly" <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote in message news:mailman.1061.1337904113.24740.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >On May 24, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > >> On 5/24/2012 2:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> You sir, have inspired me :) I started writing a reply, but it ended up >>> being this: >>> >>> https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/steve-jobs-was-not-a-good-designer >> >> :-) >> >> My main complaint with the touch interface is my touches often >>frustratingly do not register.
I've heard a lot of about the iPhone's keyboard being amazingly accurate. I've used it. It's *not* fucking accurate. Approx every 5 to 10 letters is registered wrong - and that's when doing it slooowly and carefully. This is because my fingers are not the size of a five-year-old's. I've never had accuracy problems with a resistive touchscreen, because they don't require a whole finger (and capactive styli suck, plus there's no place to store a stylus anyway). > >Your skin is probably too dry. Using a touch interface on a cold >day can be an exercise in frustration for this reason. I've taken to >licking my fingers if touches don't register, and that always does the >trick, though it's maybe a bit gross.= Yet another reason resistive touchscreens fucking kick ass.