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First of all, it's not an easy task, technologically. Second of all, the iPhone is conceptually a low-resolution input and a high-resolution output device. Hand
by yan 18y ago
First of all, it's not an easy task, technologically. Second of all, the iPhone is conceptually a low-resolution input and a high-resolution output device. Handwriting requires a high-resolution input. I think people in general like poking at its virtual keyboard much more than fussing with some program trying to figure out what they wrote.
- amichail 18y agoYou can write in a large region that is the same size as the current onscreen keyboard. When you are done writing a word, it would be inserted into the document in a much smaller size. So I don't think resolution would be a problem.
- madcaptenor 18y agoYes, but people aren't used to writing a word and then moving back to where they started to write the next word.
- amichail 18y agoThey wouldn't need to do that. You would still have the notion of a cursor, but it would be at word boundaries. When you write a word and tap end-of-word (or perhaps pause), the word would be inserted into your document. You could then write another word and it would be inserted just after the previous word.