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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
