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		asimovDev 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and ... don't knobs also serve a practical purpose since otherwise you'd have a ton of horizontal sliders, which would quickly crowd the interface?

wolrah 18 days ago [–]

Spinner controls have been around ~forever in GUIs.

They take up about the same space in a UI as a virtual knob, but they clearly display the current setting and are much easier to interact with.

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