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What this says is "software keyboards suck." That's the elephant in the room. "Better than utter crap" does not mean "wonderful." I do wonder how the SR test wo
by Piskvorrr 10y ago
What this says is "software keyboards suck." That's the elephant in the room. "Better than utter crap" does not mean "wonderful." I do wonder how the SR test would stack up against a hardware keyboard - a device-sized one, and a full-scale one.
(Well of course on-screen keyboards suck: they're a skeuomorphic ugly hack that has been bolted onto a touchscreen. With a slideout hardware QWERTY keyboard on an Xperia Pro, I was typing slower than on a full-sized kb, but still several times faster than any onscreen input - predictive or not, swipe or not.)
- collyw 10y agoYeah, touchscreen keyboards were a big step backwards in usability.
- pluma 10y agoThere's zero tactile feedback on software keyboards and the way most people are using them is basically the good old "hunt and peck" style that's the least efficient way to use a hardware keyboard. I'm not sure the results would be any better or worse on a desktop on-screen keyboard with mouse input.