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Originally Posted by apricoto
Why should the mouse and tap have the same behavior? Because we are simple human users
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Please don't suggest that touchscreen interface and mouse interface should be identical. That's what's wrong with far too many touchscreen interfaces!
There is not a 1:1 correspondence between touchcreen inputs and mouse inputs. There are things touch can do that mouse can't, and many things mouse can do that touch can't. If you make the interfaces identical, either one of them will be badly broken, or both will have many expected modern "intuitive" elements missing.
There is actually very little that is intuitive about a complex mouse or touchscreen interface. What you think is intuitive is just how you've been trained to use a mouse. I've seen far too many people try to use a mouse or touchscreen for the first time to believe anything there is intuitive. There is no intuitive there -- there's just a "common" interface that actually isn't even completely cross platform.