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daedalus__
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mouse gestures

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so ive been really really into js and ui lately. and im wondering if any of you have ever tried to implement mouse gestures for whatever reason?

after i do some styleable scrollbars and actually get my website working, i thought it would be really fun to try gestures i could see them being really useful far in the future. you see gestures being primary interface elements in science fiction movies and i say to myself, why the hell not? i think i could make something interesting with enough of my liquid RAD tool. (i stole your jojke abra).

but yeah. i'll post some simple examples when i get around to it but i'd like to see what you guys have come up with?
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Re: mouse gestures

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There is a Firefox plugin that does gestures: http://www.mousegestures.org/ .

I've never tried to implement it because I never have an audience that would benefit from it.
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Re: mouse gestures

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I think mouse gestures are too cubmbersome to be useful. Hand gestures as done on touch devices can be very useful though.

Check out this plugin for jquery -
http://friggeri.net/blog/2008/12/21/jquery-gestures
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Re: mouse gestures

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well i was thinking of some very simple features that anyone could adjust to such as a loading the previous request by holding a key and dragging the mouse left across 75% of the screen with the reverse being forward or something. there are a lot of little ideas ive been having that i think would be really useful, especially for social networking sites where the users are willing to learn the interface.

and i agree that it would be useful for touch devices. they are still pretty cumbersome to use for me. the girlfriend has a blackberry storm and it drives me crazy. i haven't ever developed for a mobile device but ive been tempted to throw some stuff together to test on her phone.

the jquery gestures plugin you linked to is very nice and a great example of a scenario where a gesture would be useful.
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