On Saturday 08 September 2007 14:17, Giles Jones wrote: > I don't see how pressing three keys for one letter is faster than > predictive?
As a contrived example, try typing "http://example.com/~user"; using predictive text (obviously some other method would be default for emails and memos and anything else that's mostly dictionary-words) On my phone, the ":" character is "options, insert options, insert symbol, down, right, right, right, right, use", i.e. 9 or 17 keypresses instead of 2. Remember that browser URL bars, and Bash (to name two apps) already support their own autocomplete. A predictive-text keyboard would need to integrate with the browser history, or the bash-history to get good matches, rather than using the facilities which are already there. If you're SSH on another machine, or entering text into a AJAX-autocompleting webpage, then the keyboard program may not even have access to the relevant dictionary. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
