Finger Splash looks very cool and useful. Imho a cool idea. @[EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are right, abcde... keyboards can be used for blind typing. But not on a only-touchscreen-phone. I used a Nokia 7710 for about 1.5 years and typing blind was simply impossible. Theres no feedback at all.
2007/5/30, Ben Burdette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dasher is only really information efficient considering the input only. > The output stream needs to be quite dense. > > This pretty much means that you have to stare at the display all the time > when inputting text. > Sure - in theory, dasher may approach arithmetic coding in terms of > information input. > But unless you can do the coding in your head, you've got to stare at the > screen, making it less useful for environments where you've got vibration, > sunlight, walking down the street, or less likely for a phone, if you're > blind. (Hmm. /me ponders dasher with audio prompting) > T9 or even abc def ... you can use blind. > Even qwerty with real hardware keys. (I think on-screen keyb would be > optimistic :) ) > > To me, it looks like Dasher has a some drawbacks: one, it seems to be CPU intensive - there's a lot of animation going on during text entry. Not a problem for PCs, but it might not be optimal on a low power device. two, its storage intensive. You have to have a dictionary of some sort available for it to do its prediction. Or, several dictionaries, each for a different type of text entry (like english and japanese, or english and C++ programming). three, it takes up a lot of screen space. If you are just doing pure text entry without needing to look at something else, that's ok. But I'd rather it didn't take up the whole screen so that I can't see an IM that I'm replying to, or several lines of the website form I'm filling out. That's not to say I'm against Dasher. But I'd like to see a lot of flexibility available in openmoko text entry so that I can change to dasher, or some other text entry method when needed, or just to try things out. I hope someone will implement it for openmoko, together with several other alternatives for doing text entry. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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