Opera Reader: Paging the Web

Very cool… for tablets.  But on a desktop browser?  I’m not seeing why swiping left and right with your mouse is better than scrolling with a mousewheel.  In fact it feels a lot more awkward and difficult to get to more information, in much the same way that grabbing a horizontal scrollbar feels awkward.  I’d be interested to hear a convincing argument in favor of using this on a desktop, mouse-driven platform.

Still, this seems like a very cool technology for developing great touch-oriented websites with native-app-like UI-responsiveness.

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