Thanks for making your site wacom-friendly. A lot of sites don't have any denoising for clicks, so if you try to click with a tablet it ends up dragging a tiny amount instead (twitter's lightbox is REALLY BAD in this respect).
I assume you have a great deal of previous drawing experience? In my experience, people without tens of thousands of hours of drawing experience find it extremely difficult to adapt to using a wacom tablet to control the mouse. I’m sure it can be done, but an hour is an incredibly optimistic time estimate.
One tip: try the various sizes of tablet, as tastes differ; some find the larger tablets tiring, others find the smaller tablets fidgety, and, in my own experience, display size also plays an important role (the "large" Intuos is perfect paired with a 27" display, for instance, while the "small" feels more natural paired with a MacBook Air; while you can compensate by restricting the active area on the tablet, I've never been a big fan of doing so, nor with spanning the tablet area across multiple displays).
If you're using touchpads, going from touchpad to stylus is exactly the same switch as going from finger paint to pen. If you're using a mouse, then using a stylus allows for less awkward wrist motion.
Absolute positioning is AWESOME for static or mostly static UI elements: menu bars, browser tabs, buttons on websites since your brain can calculate 'ahead of time' how much it needs to move. It's also much more accurate when performing small motor movements (hence why it's used for drawing, but this also comes in to play for highlighting text). It does not perform as well when scrolling, which is where relative positioning works better.
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