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One nit with the typing test (which is the only thing I tried): Lots of us were taught (correctly) to follow a period with two spaces. When you do that on you
by jasonkester 16y ago
One nit with the typing test (which is the only thing I tried):
Lots of us were taught (correctly) to follow a period with two spaces. When you do that on your test, every single character from there on out is highlighted in red. It thinks you're wrong on every word, and there's nothing you can do about it short of backspacing to the period in question and erasing one of your spaces.
It pretty much makes the test useless. And since that's the only thing you let me see, the only inference I can draw is that the rest of your product is of similar quality. In short, you lost me.
Multiply that times everybody else who visits your site and types that way, and think about the impact it will have on your sales.
- mojombo 16y ago"Most modern literature on typography says that double spacing is wrong" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing (with citations).
- jasonkester 16y agoIndeed, but the article you reference is about typesetting, not typing. Schools were still teaching the double-space typing method well into the 90's (and probably beyond), so if you're building a product for people who type and are potentially older than 30, it's probably a good idea to account for the fact that they're likely to type two spaces after a period.
- nickknw 16y agoFWIW, I am 22 and I was also taught this way.
- kaffeinecoma 16y agoA few others have given me similar feedback on the two-spaces issue. I used to be a double-spacer myself until HTML came along. I'm planning to offer a config option that allows you to specify whether you prefer single or double spaces. Not sure which is the best default to offer for visitors though. Thanks for your feedback!
- lasonrisa 16y agoI do not know your code, but you might be able to guess this from what the user types and skip the configuration option. If someone consistently enters two spaces you can then assume that when there is only one space it is a mistake.
- kaffeinecoma 16y agoI just implemented something to the effect of: "if the preceding substring was dot space, and the user types another space, just ignore it". Hope that works for you.
- ssing 16y agoI was not able to complete the typing test. Something went wrong when I tried to move from 2 to the 3 line and after that it was unusable.
- kaffeinecoma 16y agoOS, browser? Not sure what you mean from "move from the 2 to the 3 line"... hitting enter/return won't prematurely move you from one line to the next. Or were you trying to type the specified text, and it was locking up in some way? Thanks for the heads-up.