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Interesting because keyboards and programming are core interests of mine (shocking, on HN). I am skeptical about two of the main claims/conclusions, though: -
by unwind 2y ago
Interesting because keyboards and programming are core interests of mine (shocking, on HN).
I am skeptical about two of the main claims/conclusions, though:
- I don't think enabling caps lock makes the comma and period keys produce < and > without shift on a US keyboard, does it? It's not a "shift lock" after all.
- I think HTML is an application/specialization of SGML, which came from GML that is much older, and from IBM in the US.
- kruador 2y agoIf you look at Tim Berners-Lee's original NeXT Cube that he developed WorldWideWeb on, you can see that it has a US keyboard layout. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/original-next-computer-used-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-to-design-the-world-wide-web-next https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/original-next-comput... There's obviously a caveat there that the keyboard could have been replaced - but based on the colour of the plastics it would certainly be a similar age. The keyboard has AlphaLock rather than Caps Lock. I can't find a manual saying exactly what it did! You're right that the Caps Lock key on PC and Mac keyboards only capitalises the alphabetic keys without affecting the symbolic or numeric characters. Some international layouts may still offer a Shift Lock?