On 20/12/11 12:27, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> agreed. programmer should simply try and use pinch gestures and if he doesnt
> get any either its not possible (no multi-touch device) or, no emulated
> gesture/input is being used (he really is looking at zoom not pinch so you can
> emulate with mousehweels etc. or other actions like "double tap" and so on).
> the programmer shouldn't decide by system configuration decides - if someone
> wishes to violate the patent by turning it on, they can, but otherwise it's 
> off
> by default. in theory we maybe should also shoudl be able to compile out the
> code to handle the bevhavior which at the app level will result in the same
> thing as it being off in config - it just can never be turned on without a
> recompile (freetype did this with bytecode hinting for many years).

Yep, freetype is the same example I had in mind.

--
Tom.


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