Obviousness and interpretation heuristics
Obviousness and interpretation heuristics
Posted Feb 5, 2009 13:28 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)In reply to: Obviousness and interpretation heuristics by pjm
Parent article: Apple's touch-screen patent
I was thinking of this too. Given that drawing-programs have for literally decades had options to snap-to-90 for lines which in actuality are just close-to-90.
Guesstimating that the user probably intends to draw a vertical line (or scroll vertically) when he draws his finger in a line very close to the vertical, is painfully obvious.
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