begin quoting Todd Walton as of Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:49:15PM -0600: > On 2/26/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Every time you take your fingers off of home row to use those keys you > >are losing time. I recommend the simplest keyboard possible. > > I don't output a continuous stream of keypresses anyway. Sometimes I > do pause for milliseconds at a time, and opening a browser is just > such a time. Having a key for it would be great. Better than "Alt-F2 > fir Tab", and *certainly* better than mousing to menus or buttons. Mostly the problem I see with these dedicated keys is that they're small and hard to press.
> And I'm a 65 wpm typer. > > >I have two Happy Hacker keyboards and really like them: > > Yikes! $70 does not a Happy Hacker make. What are the interfaces to your computer? The monitor, the keyboard, and the mouse. These are the components that you should NOT skimp on. My only gripe about the Happy Hacking keyboard is that it's too small. Well, that an it's missing dedicated function keys. -- Best typing position: keyboard in your lap, feet on the desk. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
