Comment by Ididntdothis
6 years ago
Windows 95 was developed at a time when people thought that Pen computing would be the next big thing so they put in a lot of pen stuff that eventually was barely used. It always stayed a niche.
6 years ago
Windows 95 was developed at a time when people thought that Pen computing would be the next big thing so they put in a lot of pen stuff that eventually was barely used. It always stayed a niche.
Maybe now is the time for it to come back? Windows 2-in-1 devices with a pen are magical these days, but there's far too little well-designed pen-oriented applications.
(I'm worried this won't improve until web folks fix the broken pointer events APIs, and even then it'll only lead to proliferation of pen-oriented Electron apps.)
It was used heavily on PDAs and similar devices until iPhone came to the scene and introduced "proper" touch.
Of course, those ran WinCE usually. But I don't think pen input code was any different.