Crockford Keyboard
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Crockford Keyboard
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#2It's as if the alphabet runs in order.
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#3The "Done" button is a toggle? Is that a side effect of this being a proof of concept, or was there some extra functionality in mind?
Edit: Answering my own question, since it looks like this was designed for touch/pen based input, it would probably hide the keyboard: http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/keyboard.html
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#4semi-colon is pretty hard to find..
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#5Is there anything particularly interesting or useful about this keyboard design, or is it simply because it was designed by Crockford that makes it deserve mention? Aside from unsuitable for touch-typing, it looks like a common sense way to do it.
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#6I can't see the point of this keyboard but if it is a good thing to have the letters run from a-z starting from the top-left it seems like the numbers should start with 1(or 0) on the top-left as well.
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#7Is there anything particularly interesting or useful about this keyboard design, or is it simply because it was designed by Crockford that makes it deserve mention? Aside from unsuitable for touch-typing, it looks like a common sense way to do it.
It looks like a nice single handed layout.
I'm not sure about having t, n, s on the weaker fingers.
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#8Interesting. The toggle from "alpha" to "euro" seemed like a neat feature at first, but it's of course completely un-suited to fast typing.
Likewise, compartmentalizing typing into various groups (alphabetic chars, accented chars, capitalized chars, symbols, punctuation, etc.) is logical, but mostly incompatible with just about any modern keyboard workflow.
edit : after doing some further reading, I realize I was judging it based on a completely incorrect set of criteria. It's intended purpose was for non typists, single-hand typing or "environments where conventional two-handed keyboarding does not work" [1]
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#9Note that all the vowels are in the same column, which is reminiscent of how they're all placed on the home row under the left hand in the Dvorak keyboard layout.
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#10semi-colon is pretty hard to find..
I had a really hard time distinguishing comma from period on the number pad, too.