Have you played with the iOS 5 iPad split keyboard. In theory this is good
for thumbs on iPad landscape.

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM, David Leibs <[email protected]> wrote:

> When using J on my iPad I find that when I rotate to landscape mode I
> quickly rotate back out of that mode.  The problem is that the
> keyboard is just too big.
>
>  When it comes to the keyboard in our J application I must confess
> that I have a little Wolfram Alpha envy. The Alpha keyboard would be
> quite wrong for us in the iPhone though.
>
> Here is an idea that is only a little "out there", a future idea since
> Eric probably doesn't want to branch into two platforms at this early
> stage of the game.
>
> Using iDevices I have been trained to touch type with my thumbs even
> on the  iPad. In landscape mode we could have a large center area and
> two special keyboards, on each each side. They would be J-centric
> (what ever that means) would be layed out for thumb typing.  I think
> something like this could work because of the way that is natural to
> hold the iPad when in landscape mode. We could still even have some
> kind of small popup keyboard for the bottom that some gesture could
> trigger.
>
> I think virtual keyboard(s) are a very interesting opportunity for us.
>
> -David Leibs
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