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Please don't. I really don't want to be forced to look at my keyboard.
by EpicEng 10y ago
Please don't. I really don't want to be forced to look at my keyboard.
- leesalminen 10y agoThis seems like a developer-centric viewpoint. Users of my app are not tech savvy and this could be a very convenient way of providing shortcuts to things. We already offer customizable keyboard shortcuts but nobody uses them.
- EpicEng 10y agoI think it's a very "I can type without looking at my keyboard" centric view. If your keyboard shortcuts are already going unused it may be a discoverability problem, or it may just be that people who aren't power users will always prefer the mouse/track pad. If that's the case then I'm not sure glitzy icons on the keyboard help them.
- callalex 10y agoEver heard of a UI element called the "toolbar"?
- spiderfarmer 10y agoWhy so condescending? The touchbar's sole reason for existing is for enhancing productivity by making shortcuts discoverable.
- echelon 10y agoThis is also Apple-specific hardware, which kind of flies in the face of becoming a "standard". I hope it doesn't get adopted by other laptop manufacturers. Imagine it does. Then we'll need desktop keyboards to support this standard. I like my wireless keyboard's battery life, and I don't see any benefit in buying a more expensive keyboard with decreased battery life in order to support UI I don't intend to use.
- madeofpalk 10y agoThere can still be a JS API for it that's not standardised. See Apple's JS APIs for Force/3D Touch in Safari on Mac and iOS. Unfortunately though they both have different APIs :( In saying that though, I doubt Apple would actually make this available for website.