Re:Was Google Earth Stolen?
by buran77 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:06PM
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For several comments you made the point that the idea of inertial scrolling (dragging something and letting it "slide") was not obvious:
> I'm speaking of the inertial scrolling [...] That physics combination with drag and drop interaction was not obvious
Now you pivoted to the point that the implementation is what makes it not obvious:
> You have to think of and implement the idea.
Despite the tone of disapproval you just landed in agreement with what I said in the very first comment:
> The "what" is obvious [...] The technical "how" of the implementation is not really obvious
Will it be a novel invention to implement the inertial scrolling of a map using an exceptionally overly-complicated and completely impractical method that nobody has used before? No. Will the idea of inertial scrolling be obvious despite my completely non-obvious implementation? Very much so.
> I'm speaking of the inertial scrolling [...] That physics combination with drag and drop interaction was not obvious
Now you pivoted to the point that the implementation is what makes it not obvious:
> You have to think of and implement the idea.
Despite the tone of disapproval you just landed in agreement with what I said in the very first comment:
> The "what" is obvious [...] The technical "how" of the implementation is not really obvious
Will it be a novel invention to implement the inertial scrolling of a map using an exceptionally overly-complicated and completely impractical method that nobody has used before? No. Will the idea of inertial scrolling be obvious despite my completely non-obvious implementation? Very much so.