<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>CATBLOC</provider_name><provider_url>https://daguer.blogactiv.eu</provider_url><author_name>daguer</author_name><author_url>https://daguer.blogactiv.eu/author/daguer/</author_url><title>The Catalan flag and multitouch (excerpt)</title><html>&lt;a href=&quot;http://daguer.blogactiv.eu/files/2010/03/mix09buxton1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29&quot; src=&quot;http://daguer.blogactiv.eu/files/2010/03/mix09buxton1-300x244.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;244&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Multitouch is the touch-screen technology that allows you to put two fingers on an &lt;strong&gt;iPhone&lt;/strong&gt; and pinch or pull to zoom in and out. During his Tuesday keynote, (Bill) Buxton credits it to the&lt;strong&gt; Count of Barcelona Wilfred the Hairy&lt;/strong&gt; in 897.

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During a battle, &lt;strong&gt;King Charles the Bald&lt;/strong&gt; dipped his fingers into Wilfred&#039;s war wounds and dragged his fingers down a golden shield, leaving blood streaks on the shield. Red bars across a yellow background became the flag of Catalan (sic), (...). Buxton called it the first case of multitouch.

(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/2011372694_mix10_a_hit_list_of_metaphors_from_microsoft_resea.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)</html><type>rich</type></oembed>