July 2011
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OS X Lion's Gesture Language
OS X Lion interprets mouse and trackpad gestures as commands. Those commands are actually a language. They have a vocabulary and a grammar. Here’s my theory.
Grammar
In Lion’s gesture language, each gesture is an imperative sentence, composed of a verb and an object. You do a gesture by making a motion or some number of taps. In so doing you use some number of fingers. The number of...