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Cover Flow and the scrolling horizontal subnav at the new Apple.com
37signals.com — As the world gets iPhonified and Leopardized, get ready for more Cover Flow (video), the scrolling interface with forward/backward arrows that mimics a CD collection or jukebox selection...
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- streak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1CoverFlow: I-hate-it-I-hate-it-I-hate-it!
- streak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1CoverFlow is fun and looks cool, but for getting work done, it's monotonously slow. My eyes can scan much faster than I can mouse around, so instead, show me a ton of pics at once for me to choose from. The demo Jobs provided of CoverFlow and QuickLook was also lame. Every document he showed was easily distinguishable from the rest. When scanning for a document of interest, the real power of QuickLook would come in when several documents have similar appearance. As advertised, QuickLook allows you to quickly view each document at sufficient resolution to distinguish it from the others, but this wasn't really necessary in Jobs' demo--the documents could be easily distinguished in thumbnail representations. And what if you need to compare two or more similar documents simultaneously in order to decide which one you really want? And what if the documents are scattered about, such that you have to flip forever through CoverFlow to get to each one? And why can't the computer sort the CoverFlow images by their inner similarity? Maybe somebody should patent this. Oops, too late.
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