Of course, most tablets have a "relative mode", but most people don't 
use it....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 6:56 PM +0200 6/13/03, Andreas Raab wrote:
>  > 1. Why has the mouse remained so popular when it's clearly inferior to
>>  just directly pointing (even with a stylus)?  Surely the technology of
>>  the digitizer has gotten much cheaper over the years.  It
>>  can't be just a cost issue anymore.
>
>Hand-eye coordination for one thing. Positioning the cursor sucks with a
>tablet if you can't move your hand towards what you look at. I think that's
>why most successful "off-screen" positioning devices are relative and not
>absolute. In addition a tablet which isn't the display itself requires extra
>space and so you have to move your hand pretty far away to get to the right
>position (I have to lean over in order to get to the upper right corner of
>the screen on my Wacom).
>
>A good bit of reinforcement by the UIs for another. If you've ever been
>using the MS tablet PC one of the first things that you notice is how badly
>Windows is designed for use with a pen. I find it almost unusable with a
>pen.
>
>Cheers,
>   - Andreas


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