http://stuartsierra.com/2006/08/07/finger-painting-on-a-computer-screen From programming to everything else Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://stuartsierra.com/2006/08/07/finger-painting-on-a-computer-screen#comment-491 Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra » Blog Archive » Down With Upper Case Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:39:51 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/2006/08/07/finger-painting-on-a-computer-screen#comment-491 [...] Of course, there will always be some user screaming if you remove his favorite key, so it’s easier to keep the legacy keys than remove them. And for power users, mouse-driven interfaces still can’t match the speed of Escape Meta Alt Control Shift. This will have to change, and I think it will with large, multiple-contact, flexible touch screens. Keyboards will stick around for a long time, because there’s nothing better for getting a lot of text down fast, and the tactile response is important. But they will be more “peripheral,” stripped down to their essential function and used only occasionally. [...] [...] Of course, there will always be some user screaming if you remove his favorite key, so it’s easier to keep the legacy keys than remove them. And for power users, mouse-driven interfaces still can’t match the speed of Escape Meta Alt Control Shift. This will have to change, and I think it will with large, multiple-contact, flexible touch screens. Keyboards will stick around for a long time, because there’s nothing better for getting a lot of text down fast, and the tactile response is important. But they will be more “peripheral,” stripped down to their essential function and used only occasionally. [...]

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