Cursor

• https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10640/

  • About the new cursor on the iPad
  • The regular cursor is very precise, which may seem like a good thing, but it actually has many drawbacks.
  • iPadOS intentionally reduces the precision of the cursor.
    • When the cursor is on a button, the minimum movement unit changes from 1 pixel to 1 button.
    • This helps eliminate mis-clicks.
  • Improving the user interface by not providing more precision than necessary.
    • For example, when there are a few lines of text, the required precision is at the line level.
  • Adaptive Precision

• Previously, the style was to move the cursor in pixel units and something would happen when clicked.

  • On the iPad, the cursor shows its future position when it is hovered over.
  • More WYSIWYG-like.

• There is also a sense of pseudo haptic feedback.

• I realized that the sensation when scrolling in a spreadsheet is similar to this (blu3mo).

  • However, it might be a bit difficult to use because there is no feature to visualize movements that are below the precision of the iPad’s cursor.

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• The mouse cursor may seem to be linked to hand movements, but fundamentally it may be linked to eye movements.