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Consistency between gestures and the mouse is a terrible goal, absolutely terrible because they're so different. The pinch to zoom and swipe to scroll works well on iOS devices but it is horrible on track pads because of the presence of a cursor. On a trackpad and a mouse you use your fingers to move a cursor, not to swipe and gesture.

Maybe it's just me, but mouse gestures, swiping and scrolling are far too easily activated. Take the worst offender in this area of all: Google. There is no UI inconsistency worse, IMHO, than scroll to zoom on Google maps. Absolutely atrocious. No matter how long I've used Google maps, I cannot seem to stop myself from using the scroll wheel/swipe/whatever to move around on the page, inadvertently zooming. Not only that, but the trackpads and Apple's "magic mouse" are impossibly sensitive, scrolling, swiping, and gesturing seemingly at random. How anyone uses these, I cannot say.

Must be me.



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