On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:07:07 +0200 Marcel <tan...@googlemail.com> said:
> I simply want to try that design before sending it to hell, maybe it just > works fine... I agree with people who said this before: Hitting actually > dead space is less painful than hitting the wrong key and having to > backspace/stroke-left all the time, maybe even accidentally pressing other > keys while doing that. but u'll hit dead space (nothing) about 50% more often than the actual key you intended to hit now (as 50% of the area it would have normally used is now dead space). for a physical kbd it might help as u have better tactile feel as u have more edge near the finger, but for a touchscreen - all you do is lose 50% of he area you had before for hitting keys. (admittedly for mis-types now where you would have hit another key there is less area to hit too). so you lose more keypresses (you lost 50% of the hit area), but you lost mis-hit area too. one way or another - you press, then quickly press next key, but then notice that the previous key wasn't hit - u still need to backspace and re-enter again (possibly missing again). you just give up 1 kind of error for another kind -- ------------- 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