While I had a vague idea of features that I’d wanted to include when working on my current site design, I hadn’t thoguht them through enough when I started. As it happened, the design evolved out of some things that I discovered while implementing a different design in css and just stuck. In this process, it lost the ability to work with some of the functionality that I wanted it to have and it’s just kind of sat here in a half-finished state for some time now. Because I’m tired of it sitting like this and need to get a solid design worked out so I can focus on content and other important things, I’m redesigning the site with a lot more focus. Read on for a list of stuff that I’m planning on doing. Tell me if any of it sounds crazy.
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Okay, so I’m sitting here at Coffee Time, I’ve got my Powerbook on the table and my phone is sitting next to it on the right hand side. Since I sat down I’ve grabbed my phone and moved it around no less than three separate times, each time realizing that it wasn’t a mouse and dejectedly going back to my trackpad. My phone is not a mouse, but what if it WAS? With the size of today’s mini wireless mice, the hardware can’t actually take up all that much space and it would provide just one more little bit of hardware integration. It would be so cool. It wouldn’t even necessarily need to be built into the mouse either. Like those flashy lights that scott used to have, it could be built in to a replacement battery pack. This would work especially well on my phone as the back panel could be quickly replaced to let an optical beam shine out. There would still need to be a clicking method, of course, but that could be dealt with. If people would be satisfied with one button, it could add a bit of width to the phone and function kind of like the Apple pro (not mighty) mouse. If it were actually to be built into the phone, existing exterior buttons could be used and if the phone had built-in bluetooth, this would just add one more little way to use it. I totally want one.
Update! I’m realizing that it might not be the most reliable solution, but I think that it might just be possible to do this on a cameraphone with adequate java support! Sure, sliding your cameraphone around might not be the best idea, but it would still be cool.