<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I agree. A distinction should be made between apps on the phone that are finger apps and intended for day2day _phone_ operation and other apps that adds or mimics a software available for the PC, e.g. a TextEditor (mobile openoffice maybe?). <br><br>btw, i just noticed... the iphone does implement a double tap. in safari and google maps, double tap is used to zoom in.<br><br>i know this defeats almost this whole discussion, but its something to ponder... to Apple, a double tap is not something difficult for their end users...<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: pauric <pauric@pauric.net><br>To: ramsesoriginal
<ramsesoriginal@gmail.com><br>Cc: flerchjj@ieee.org; Mohammed Musallam <musallam001@yahoo.com>; openmoko-apps@lists.openmoko.org<br>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:24:37 AM<br>Subject: Re: Application UI Design Recommendations<br><br>I had a think about this last night. There is a use case for double tapping: to select a word in a text editor.<br><br>So, some time in the next few days I'll edit the wiki with a line that advises against the common implementation of a double tap gesture, but in circumstances where there is a clear parallel with a desktop app (
e.g. text editing, url entry, copy/paste selection etc) that the designer should carefully consider implementing that gesture.<br><br>Excellent discussion - thanks all.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
ramsesoriginal</b> <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:ramsesoriginal@gmail.com">ramsesoriginal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We must not forget that this actually IS a phone, and on a phone "normal" users don't double-click since there's no mouse. As far as I have seen, end-users don't even think of double-clickning on phones (except some of the techie ones, wich have the skill to understand when to double-click and when not).
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