Comments on: Moousture: mouse gesture library

By: jerone

jerone — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:19:40 +0000

Cool!
Shouldn’t be that hard to port this to jQuery.

By: johnnymm

johnnymm — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:10:38 +0000

It requires more experiments to define a good gesture. I have built a library to track user clicking positions instead of mouse movements, so I understand it is hard to determine “the end” of a gesture. That is, the next gesture usually mess up with previous one. However I found that the library gives bad results for short gestures. Or may be I have used bad tuning parameters?
I would suggest to add a parameter to clear recorded gestures after certain period of time.

By: Bundyo

Bundyo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:55:12 +0000

On the third hand gestures can be quite handy for touchscreen mobile browsers.

By: sixtyseconds

sixtyseconds — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:39:54 +0000

@dark – on the other hand, maybe we can remove that tab button so users won’t be able to tab outside the window… :P

By: Darkimmortal

Darkimmortal — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:37:02 +0000

Not bad, but I find mouse gestures intrusive.

Being able to create them on demand is as bad as being able to resize the browser window and remove toolbars. :/

By: tj111

tj111 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:39:04 +0000

Aww server down, I was looking forward to trying it out and digging through the source.

By: Liquidrums

Liquidrums — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:34:40 +0000

That is really well done, with a simple way of creating gestures.

It took me a bit to figure it out, because I kept circling the cursor but never saw the menu appear (until I stopped the gesture). I was waiting for some sort of indication that I was gestured correctly.

Great work!

By: sixtyseconds

sixtyseconds — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:28:19 +0000

Fabulous work!

By: JimNeath

JimNeath — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:29:25 +0000

@thnkfstr – It uses mootools.

By: thnkfstr

thnkfstr — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:19:37 +0000

Interesting stuff, but why not call it Mousture? Doesn’t have the connotation of a cow or mootools.