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Not respecting dvorak keyboard layout, even in 2008?

• entitlement 16y ago
  Lack of universal acceptance was one of the cons you either accepted, or naively overlooked, back when you decided dvorak was the way to go. It'd be nice to see it work in more places, sure, but it just ain't... you're conflating 'should' and 'could'.
  • deleted 16y ago
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  • Groxx 16y ago
    The issue with ignoring dvorak is that any web browser (heck, nearly any application) will handle it just fine. Flash apparently doesn't, or makes doing simple things (like capturing +/- keystrokes) hard enough that people don't do them in a generic way. Given that Flash is primarily used in the web browser, and most of the world doesn't use QWERTY, it's rather shameful. A quick test on my end shows that the Flash example indeed does not respect dvorak, while a Javascript key event captures the same code regardless of layout. Including Japanese. How's Flash handle that?
  • weavejester 16y ago
    Alternative keyboard layouts work for pretty much everything. Almost all applications rely on the OS to translate key mappings, so there's virtually no incompatibility to worry about. I don't think I've ever come across an application that didn't work just as well in Dvorak as Qwerty.
  • ZeroGravitas 16y ago
    A snarky Apple fan could respond in the same way with regard to the absence of Flash on the iPhone products.
    • logic 16y ago
      And additional mouse buttons.