2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com">raster@rasterman.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
but u'll hit dead space (nothing) about 50% more often than the actual key you<br>
intended to hit now (as 50% of the area it would have normally used is now dead<br>
space). for a physical kbd it might help as u have better tactile feel as u have<br>
more edge near the finger, but for a touchscreen - all you do is lose 50% of he<br>
area you had before for hitting keys. (admittedly for mis-types now where you<br>
would have hit another key there is less area to hit too).<br>
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so you lose more keypresses (you lost 50% of the hit area), but you lost mis-hit<br>
area too.<br>
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one way or another - you press, then quickly press next key, but then notice<br>
that the previous key wasn't hit - u still need to backspace and re-enter again<br>
(possibly missing again). you just give up 1 kind of error for another kind<br></blockquote><div><br>I'm amazed how much you guys can theorize about the idea before actually trying it.<br><br>Is it because of allergy to patents? I bet we could use the general idea if we wanted to, without violating the patent. Just change the shape of the keys or something.<br>
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