| |||||||||||||
Apple's patent attackApple's patent attackPosted Mar 6, 2010 16:25 UTC (Sat) by bcopeland (subscriber, #51750)In reply to: Apple's patent attack by dps Parent article: Apple's patent attack #7,469,381: List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display (2007). This one is complex, but seems to cover the practice of "bouncing" the display when scrolled past the end of a document or list. Bouncing smooth scrolling was also really popular in Ansi viewers of the BBS days (I even wrote one.). Of course, touch screens weren't very common back then, but that seems to be the logical obvious extension.
(Log in to post comments)
Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 6, 2010 19:14 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Personally it's always made me feel seasick. A patent on making your users
feel ill! (I have always thought that it would be Microsoft, or IBM's mainframe division, who managed that one.)
|
|||||||||||||