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Six things that are both good and bad about Lion
Stephen Withers
Monday, 15 August 2011 18:32
Mac users' reactions to Lion are about the most polarised I can remember. Some of the new features seem to suit some but not all, and what one person sees as advance, another regards as a step back.
One thing I've noticed is that MacBook users seem more positively disposed to Lion than iMac and Power Mac users. That brings us to the first of my six issues.
Gestures and scrolling
If you don't use a trackpad or Magic Mouse, gestures don't come into Mac operation. But if you do, an increase in the number and range of gestures is very welcome, and I think this explains why MacBook users are generally more positive about Lion.
The 'natural scrolling' furore amuses me. Yes, it makes complete sense with a touch screen, because it feels as if you're interacting directly with the document. By extension, that applies to trackpads. But using a scroll wheel so that rolling the wheel towards you takes you towards the foot of the document is so deeply ingrained at this stage (and there are no other gestures to help break old habits) that I struggle to see why anyone wouldn't disable natural scrolling for a wheel mouse.
So why am I amused? I attended the Australian launch of the Macintosh back in 1984 (as the representative of a potential large customer, not as a journalist), and I clearly remember that almost everyone I watched using a mouse for the first time expected scrolling to work in the reverse direction - that is, they thought scrolling should move the document, not the viewport. Over the last 27 years we've internalised Apple's way of doing things, and now it wants us to change back. Ironic?
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