A keyboard has a terrible form factor. In my opinion handwriting&stylus would be a next logical step. J's compactness is just perfect for this. It's a pity that the iPad only supports a finger interface.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:03 AM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > Or put the other way - How good a 2D interface is needed so one does > not need a keyboard, even for Jish languages? There is a well studied > predictive interface (eg Google uses it in its predictive queries) > which is based on statistical properties of the input stream. Those > statistics can be seeded, and/or evolved. Visual feedback can be (and > has been studied) much more rich than 1D text, in a true 2D > environment. If choices are easy enough, then a KB is relatively > inefficient. Particularly a thumb KB:-) > > ~greg > krsnadas.org > > -- > > from Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > reply-to General forum <[email protected]> > to General forum <[email protected]> > date 24 August 2010 14:16 > subject Re: [Jgeneral] J on mobile platforms > > How hard (and useful) would it be to provide a J keyboard on a > web-based version for use on mobile devices with keyboard > disabilities? > > -- > > from greg heil <[email protected]> > to General forum <[email protected]> > date 23 August 2010 19:27 > subject Re: [Jgeneral] J on mobile platforms > > One great benefit of a J nto JS transcription over server(s) is the > hoping into the sandbox, use j anywhere/when. Its presence would be > ubiquitous. > > ~greg > krsnadas.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Jan Jacobs Esdoornstraat 33 5995AN Kessel W: www.sommaps.com T: +31 77 462 1887 M: +31 6 23 82 55 21 E: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
