On May 29, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Asmus Freytag wrote: > Some of the features in those keyboard standards seem of sufficient > complexity that I can't imagine anyone other than specially trained typists > to ever be using them. >
Indeed, I suspect the future may lie elsewhere than in creating more "shift states" for individual keys, for example the "character picker" feature now available on the Mac and Apple mobile devices. http://macnancy.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/how-to-use-character-picker-in-lion/