PDA stroke-based zooming
By Dan Wu 
posted Oct 28th 2004 4:59AM
posted Oct 28th 2004 4:59AM
With the proliferation of PDAs with small VGA (640 x 480) resolution screens (like the Dell Axim X50 or HP iPAQ hx4705), all of a sudden being able to zoom in when viewing web pages is a big deal (unless you like squinting a lot). Microsoft Research has developed a simple interface which lets you zoom in on a portion of the screen with a single pen stroke, a feature we expect/hope/pray will be implemented in Windows Mobile 2005.
It took "several research teams" at Microsoft to come up with functionality that exists already in Mozilla browsers with the Optimoz Gestures utility? Or any of the other gestures extensions for Mozilla and other browsers? True, it's not on any PDA browsers that I'm aware of, but definitely not new or innovative on their part.
has Picsel viewer, reads PDF and other files; the 'zoom' feature works this way. They must've licensed it from MS?