Gestures: [Press Ctrl or Right-mouse] + Click + Drag
Old style navigation: Locate mouse cursor + Locate 16x16 px target icon + move your mouse across a 1600px desktop to the tiny icon + Click
I use StrokeIt ( http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ ) for regular Windows apps and Firefox Mouse Gestures Redox for browsing and I cannot live without either. I close app windows and browser tabs by a single slash across the screen and it is so much more efficient than going to the top-right corner of every window or locating the tiny close-tab icon. Keyboards are always faster but 90% of the time, my hand is on the mouse anyway.
The gestures work because they can perform the standardized function regardless of the UI. I can configure a 'slash' to Ctrl+F4 for Photoshop, Alt+F4 for default Windows Apps, and Ctrl+W for my text-editor. I don't think each website having its own set of gestures that do different things will be as helpful in this regard so yeah, this library isn't as useful in its current incarnation. But everyone knows what came out of being able to drag an image inside of a div using Javascript (hint: maps) so who knows what novel application this concept can help power.
Old style navigation: Locate mouse cursor + Locate 16x16 px target icon + move your mouse across a 1600px desktop to the tiny icon + Click
I use StrokeIt ( http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ ) for regular Windows apps and Firefox Mouse Gestures Redox for browsing and I cannot live without either. I close app windows and browser tabs by a single slash across the screen and it is so much more efficient than going to the top-right corner of every window or locating the tiny close-tab icon. Keyboards are always faster but 90% of the time, my hand is on the mouse anyway.
The gestures work because they can perform the standardized function regardless of the UI. I can configure a 'slash' to Ctrl+F4 for Photoshop, Alt+F4 for default Windows Apps, and Ctrl+W for my text-editor. I don't think each website having its own set of gestures that do different things will be as helpful in this regard so yeah, this library isn't as useful in its current incarnation. But everyone knows what came out of being able to drag an image inside of a div using Javascript (hint: maps) so who knows what novel application this concept can help power.