On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that >> the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for >> typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with >> the qwerty layout in the US becouse that is the standard. > > Weirdly enough, I think that qwerty is actually an advantage for this > keyboard. > Qwerty was designed to avoid having consecutive letters be close to each other > along the left-right axis. This was done so that the corresponding typewriter > hammers would not interfere. In the case of the OLPC keyboard, the key pitch > is > slightly narrower than the natural spacing between adult fingers, which means > that typing two consecutive letters with two neighboring fingers is difficult. > Qwerty tries to minimize exactly this case. Dvorak, which attempts to place > digraphs next to each other, might be slower on this size keyboard.
but adults are not supposed to be useing these keyboards ;-) David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
