As I said yesterday, we are just at the beginning of a touch interface. This morning I discovered the first thing we don't yet have -- drag and drop in Safari. I was trying to use a web page, one that does not use Flash. But what it does use is drag and drop, which won't work in Safari.
In fact it doesn't work anywhere in the operating system on the iPad except when you want to move apps around. And there you start by going into a new mode where the apps all dance around, and you finish by using the single hard button on the device.
This is a perfect situation for multiple finger gestures. I can imagine holding one finger on what I want to drag and another where I want to drop it and then flick the one finger towards the other. Wouldn't even need to move it all the way across the screen as you do with a mouse; just a simple flick and it would be dropped at the target held with your other finger.
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