Part of my current job involves helping the designers and user experience people design interfaces that will work on a variety of devices, including touch-screens. The number of times “on mouse over” has come up—usually as a compromise solution—is maddening.
I’ve just attended echelon where several of the international visitors were sat in the audiences cradling and poking at their iPads.
When I sat down to a redesign of the Gameplan admin interface I suddenly came to a realisation,
:hoverdoesn’t work. It’s entirely possible I’d skim read this somewhere, but somehow the implications for my design work had passed me by until I saw an iPad in use.As so eloquently pointed out in this article this lack of hover (along with the technical and performance issues) is one of the reasons making the iPad run flash is not something Apple are keen on.
