On 3/28/14 10:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Why must
everyone in the world be stuck with a U.S. Royal typewriter keyboard for
two or three hundred years?
You are being patronising to the 94% of the world that is not from the
USA. Do you honestly think that people all over the world have been using
computers for 30 or 40 years without any way to enter their native
language?
You think ~sooo three dimensionally.
Picture this ~a unicode keyboard with morphing keytops (digital ink,
light emitting); a standard layout of keys that are touch sensitive, are
meta operative, and are able to input *every* language on earth (as well
any symbol). The keyboard may emit light, but not necessarily. The keys
may be raised, but not necessarily; they have a glassy feel, soft,
sensual, and completely programmable. Code point pages (key top mappings
literally) are selectable on|off screen. The keyboard is obviously
wireless, and the entire keytopsection is mouse-able; the whole keyboard
is a pinting device, with diff sections for scrolling &c.
This keyboard will be standard in about 25 years... none exist today.
One of the things I do is biblical and classical language support and
translation (Latin, Hebrew, and Greek). I do translation work as well
as papers, research, &c; I need four full keyboards. I'm getting by
fairly well with the macs key mappings, but what I'm really after is the
21st century keyboard I'm dreaming about above.
Think, virtual keyboard, on a keytoplayout... but separate from any
touchable screen. And, think mac keytops (or flatter) not the plastic
IBM typewriter like keyboards of today. Think beyond.
marcus
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