Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set?

dstates writes "As a mostly happy new iPad owner, I love having lots of apps, but I have got to ask, where is the universal set of gestures for navigation? Pinch and open mostly mean zoom out and in, but sometimes you tap to open, sometimes double tap. Sometimes right swipe is back, sometimes there is a back button, sometimes you just have to go to home and navigate back down. Reminds me of the early days of GUIs when every application had its own menu set with different top-level menus and different placement of various functions. Made life chaos for users. We have been there, done that, and gestures are much worse. At least with a menu, you had a printed tag you could read. Gestures are all magic handshakes until you know them. Seems like the tablet community should not have to learn the value of consistency all over again." What gestures would you like to see made standard in touch-based interfaces?

Re:my interest

[Anonymous Coward]

why do I need a 68 in 1 card reader ( I suspect to get more money out of me than a 5-1 in card reader) Why does every electronic device needs its own adapter?

On this note, (if you haven't already heard), the European Union are forcing a standardised mobile phone charger to be brought in, with all mobile phone manufacturers having to support it and no patents or trade secrets to prevent cheap generic chargers.

That's the kind of stuff we need tbh, proper governmental regulation, businesses will fight tooth-and-nail to avoid standardisation if they think they can make more money (and there will always be at least one business who opposes it, if only to keep their monopoly from actually having to face fair competition)

It exists.

[jessecurry]

The standard UIControl set that Apple provides for developers has standard behavior already built in. There are a few gestures that may be optionally enabled, but most are on by default. If a developer goes out of their way to create some custom gesture I don't know that there's much Apple could do to stop them.

It's Right Here

[Fnord666]

Well, it's called "iOS Human Interface Guidelines" and it starts right here [apple.com]. Next question.

Re:Same problem with the missus...

[Imrik]

It's a feature not a bug, we'd know that if we could ever find the manual.

Re:my interest

[vakuona]

Apple charges off USB quite easily, as do most smartphones nowadays. IIRC, the standard is USB based, so all Apple needs is a way to connect their USB/Dock connector to s standard wall plug thingy, and they are good to go. The standard doesn't quite mandate what the connection on the phone looks like.

Re:Universal User Interfaces?

[johnlenin1]

Page down = Fn + down arrow Page up = Fn + up arrow forward delete = Fn + delete many many more here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 [apple.com]