scrolls_of·vor 15 Jahren·discuss> Inertial scrolling, yeah, that's a good call, and the only one you mentioned that's a legitimate invention.Actually this was used in games long before the iPhone, including 3D games and 2D scrolling games.It might even have been one of the toy hacks for X11 or Windows.Here's a mention from 2001: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=350Here's an IBM patent, filed 1997, for an "intertial slider": http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=uugAAAAAEBAJMulti-Touch goes back to 1985 at least: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/02/07/24/1615259/building-a-pr...
Actually this was used in games long before the iPhone, including 3D games and 2D scrolling games.
It might even have been one of the toy hacks for X11 or Windows.
Here's a mention from 2001: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=350
Here's an IBM patent, filed 1997, for an "intertial slider": http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=uugAAAAAEBAJ
Multi-Touch goes back to 1985 at least: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/02/07/24/1615259/building-a-pr...