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Inverse-T History
- amelius 5y agoI don't get it. Why not use an upright T?
- aidenn0 5y agoPer TFA, the most common pairs were: L,D U,R D,R U,D An upright T only puts 2 of those adjacent, an inverted T puts 3 of those adjacent.
- amelius 5y agoSo, you place L,D,R on the top, and U on the bottom row. Having top and bottom reversed is no problem because it happens all the time with scroll wheels (some platforms have the direction inverted wrt other platforms).
- sedivy94 5y agoI imagine because an inverse T increases locality between left, right, and down. Three fingers can rest in unison. When navigating spreadsheets, documents, and user interfaces, down is the implicit “forward” direction and up is the exception.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- ncmncm 5y agoSteve Jobs hated arrow keys, and keyboards in general. If he could have got people to enter text with the mouse, and not ship keyboards, he would have. The iPhone, finally, had no keyboard. He would have detested the bunch of cameras on the backside.