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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by thomassmith65 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:16PM (#42035375) 

  The rise of the touchscreens are an accident. Because MBAs believe iPhone == touch == good. It isn’t.
Amen! There so many flaws to touchscreens.

With the most common touchscreen implementations:

• user must hover hand above screen to avoid errant 'clicks' which is physically tiresome during prolonged use

• user cannot locate button without looking at screen, and feedback, if any, is several ms delayed (ie: till audio 'click' sound plays)

• user cannot easily control GUI on large, or multiple displays, since input-to-output scale is 1-to-1

• user cannot view the content under the target without workarounds (eg: iOS's loop widget) since user's finger blocks part of screen, and a human finger is relatively large compared to screen

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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by meindnoch on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:53PM (#42036025)
>iOS's loop widget

You mean the magnifying glass during text selection?

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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by thomassmith65 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @04:27PM (#42036216)
Oops, maybe the spelling is 'loupe', but yes.
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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by thfuran on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:56AM (#42043462)
It is. And outside of contexts where a particular trade or profession uses them as a tool, they're typically called magnifying glasses.
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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by thomassmith65 on Monday November 04, 2024 @01:50PM (#42044812)
I don't know for certain, but I suspect Adobe introduced its 'loupe tool' in 1987 when it released Photoshop. Whether or not 'loupe' is pretentious, it is now a ubiquitous term in the software industry. It's also four syllables shorter than 'magnifying glass' which, in my view (and when correctly spelled!), absolves it.
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