[miawj]

Three minutes in to the MacBook Air guided tour video they demonstrate using three fingers to swipe forward or backward a page in Safari. But the direction of the swipe is opposite to what seems natural. You swipe from right to left to move backwards! Has anyone used this gesture on an iPhone or iPod Touch or elsewhere? Does it work or does it jar?

[GSixZero]

It works great on an iphone. Use the same gesture on a piece of paper on your desk. Starting on the left and moving to the right moves the object from the left, to the right.

[jriveractu]

What's the possibility of this feature coming to the Macbooks and Macbook Pros ? We already use two fingers for scrolling, couldn't this be integrated with a simple software update ?

[miawj]

It probably does work fine in practice. It just seems counterintuitive. If I'm turning a physical page, I swipe right to left to go forwards. And in software, with a hand-grab tool, if I drag it from right to left I expect to see the right hand side of the document - which is where the next page is, not the previous page.

Hang on. You seem to be agreeing with me. "Starting on the left and moving to the right moves the object from the left, to the right." Which should leave behind an object even further to the left - which is going backwards.

Maybe there's just a silly mistake in the video. He definitely says "to page backwards swipe from right to left." Or maybe there's just a mistake in my girlish brain that can't picture abstract manipulations correctly.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by miawj 

Or maybe there's just a mistake in my girlish brain that can't picture abstract manipulations correctly.

Thats funny