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Um, I have no idea if this is cool or not, because I'm sitting in a doctor's office on my iPhone.

Is it really too much to ask to implement swipe gestures in JavaScript? The world is mobile now. Whether this is actually cool or not I shall never know, it has disqualified itself from my web browsing time.

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The idea itself isn't meant for a mobile environment. The GUI moves when you drag the windows around. This sort of interaction doesn't really play nice with mobile usage.

Slight pipedream aside; a tiling window manager with multiple real and virtual desktops plus gesture control would be nice. Anon or authed zeroconf wireless networking and would allow one to place/dock a mobile device to the side of your desktop/tv/other mobile and drag/sync apps and/or items between the two. Anyone know of a system or so that could do the likes of that?

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