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Windows 10 - Scrolling on touchscreens and writing with a pen
Hi there, I could not find this special feature in your top feedback - or I could not relate it to your list. With the old Edge you where able to switch between your pen to write on pdf-documents o...
Cloud772 Thanks for reaching out with that great question. I know that there has been discussion internally about pen functionalities, so I will loop in the team to see if they have any updates to publicly share.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
I've been using styluses since a Koala Pad on a Commodore 64 in my old high school's computer lab.
I've become accustomed to the normal behaviour since Go Corp. PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing.
Using touch for scrolling and the active stylus for interaction with text and controls is elegant, efficient, and expressive --- dumbing the stylus down to an 11th touch input was roundly shouted down pretty much everytime some naïve user suggested it --- why remove the functionality which an active stylus affords? Scrolling can easily be done with touch, even when holding a stylus and allows a user to switch between them naturally.
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Windows10-Community/issues/17
Please at least afford an option to restore the original stylus functionality which doesn't involve turning off Windows Ink and switching to a different browser. (Yes, we know Google made this behaviour the default on Chrome --- please consider that this is because they are dumbing styluses down to the lowest possible common denominator.)
I've become accustomed to the normal behaviour since Go Corp. PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing.
Using touch for scrolling and the active stylus for interaction with text and controls is elegant, efficient, and expressive --- dumbing the stylus down to an 11th touch input was roundly shouted down pretty much everytime some naïve user suggested it --- why remove the functionality which an active stylus affords? Scrolling can easily be done with touch, even when holding a stylus and allows a user to switch between them naturally.
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Windows10-Community/issues/17
Please at least afford an option to restore the original stylus functionality which doesn't involve turning off Windows Ink and switching to a different browser. (Yes, we know Google made this behaviour the default on Chrome --- please consider that this is because they are dumbing styluses down to the lowest possible common denominator.)