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New iPhone Swipe Gestures Coming Soon?
Techtree News Staff, Dec 26, 2008 1524 hrs ISTWe might also see the adoption of multi touch swipes which might use one, two or more fingers for invoking a special task
Folks at MacRumours.com seem to have come across a piece of information regarding a new patent application from Apple.
Termed as the Apple Swipe Gestures, these gestures for touchscreen keyboards seem to be a very useful addition to the already popular multi-touch navigation that the iPhone has. Here's what Apple suggests regarding the use of these swipe gestures.
"Apple suggests the use of swipe gestures to be used on top of the iPhone's on screen keyboard in order to provide the user with quick access to common keys.
For example, erasing and basic punctuation insertion, directional swipes (also referred to herein as "swipe gestures") over the alphabetic keys can be used as an alternative to striking certain keys. Because the Space and Backspace keys are quite frequently used, they are logical candidates for the rightward and leftward swipes, respectively. Leftward and rightward swipes intuitively match the cursor travel caused by these symbols. Following this cursor movement analogy, the Enter/Return may be invoked by a downward swipe, and a Shift/Caps may be invoked by an upward swipe. Alternatively, as the Enter and Shift functions may be less frequently invoked, these may be substituted for other functions as well. One alternative mapping for the upward swipe, for example, could be to activate an alternative numeric and punctuation keypad or a particular punctuation symbol like an apostrophe or period."
In addition to these, we might also see the adoption of multi touch swipes which might use one, two or more fingers for invoking a special task. For example, a one fingered left swipe can be used to delete a letter, two-fingered left swipe a word, three fingered left swipe a whole line. Interesting?
These gestures might as well turn out to be the answer to that improbable question that has been troubling us for ages. How to make multi-touch better? Well, you know how!
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