Chording Keyboards vs Dvorak or Querty
BMCzech at aol.com
BMCzech at aol.com
Thu Feb 24 04:48:06 UTC 2000
The Engelbart keyset really had 31 * 8 because the three mouse buttons served
as shifts. With no mouse buttons you had the lower case letters, one mouse
button upper. Then you could do special characters and control characters
etc. We were able to make a driver for it a few years back and used it as an
input device to a VisualWorks application.
It's most useful for command line interfaces where you have to rapidly do
short key inputs and pointing. Even for long texts Doug goes to the normal
keyboard even though he could easily do typing as quickly using the keyset.
I guess the thought of people having to learn what appears to be a tough
keyboard is just a bit too much to force on people even though you could
learn it in an afternoon. After all, Apple even removed two mouse buttons!
Cheers,
Bob
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