This is going to make the keyboard highly "english" dependent, I
should think. I haven't even been concerned with "localizing" my
projects, but for the iPhone to have truly universal appeal that is
probably a must concern for its software.
Joe Wilkins
On Jul 1, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:39:57 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote:
- Absolutely could not type on the keyboard. Very difficult.
Perhaps
my fingers are too large. Where's the stylus when you need one?
(Side note:
there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this thing.)
My guess
is they'll have to fix the keyboard input. AFAICT, it's just not
usable.
When I first heard about the keyboard, I was really wondering if it
was
going to be usable. But I saw this video
(http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard.html) shows that the
keyboard has predictive capabilities and autocorrect features so that
it will allow you to (a) type words incorrectly and still have them
show up properly, and (b) expand the touch area of a letter to make it
easier to strike it. For (a), take a look closely at the tail end of
the video where the person is typing up an email with two thumbs - he
makes a lot of mistakes, but the iPhone autocorrected his text as he
was typing. And for (b), which is also in the video, here's the
example
they gave: If you are typing a word that starts with "tim", the iPhone
knows that there aren't any common words that start with "timr" or
timw" (the "r" and "w" are on either side of the "e" on the keyboard),
so it *widens* the tap zone of the "e" key by taking most of space
from
the "w" and most of the space from the "r".
I personally haven't tried it, but I would guess that based on this
info, and it only may apply to certain apps, but I think we'll have to
wait a few weeks to see how people are doing with it to get a good
feel
for whether it becomes usable. It may be likely that people are trying
(logically) to type real words are are correcting themselves before
the
predictive/autocorrect features can kick in (I know *I* would if I
didn't know about the keyboard features above).
Just my 2 cents,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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