On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:16:21 +0200 Michal Brzozowski <ruso...@poczta.fm> said:
> 2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:27:00 +1200 Robin Paulson <robin.paul...@gmail.com> > > said: > > > > > apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors. > > > > > > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/ > > > > > > i'm not totally convinced, but it would be worth a go, i think > > > > he's smoking crack. his logic (that more deadspace makes for less > > mis-presses) > > is just wrong. it makes for fewer "presses". you hit the deadspace much > > more > > often and press nothing. if you simply expanded each key to just fill the > > rectangular region it ocupies (which it effectively does as that space is > > unused and dead) hen you get a no less accurate keyboard than what he as, > > but > > somewhere were u are MORE likely to actually hit a key as opposed to hit > > nothing. > > > > What you're saying is logical. But I think the idea is that the dead space > makes you want to hit the keys more accurately. So the smaller key teaches > you how to hit more exactly. I don't know if it's true, but I would rather > first try it out than say it's total bullshit. u seriously doubt that. mis-pressing keys will also make you want to hi them more accurately too. it applies to both cases. thedifference is that if you are not more accurate u get zero key press as opposed to the one you wanted when its a square. then you aways get a press - the question is - are you so far off that u pressed the wrong key. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
