iPhone came out, Richard Kasperowski heart has been fixed. The problem is, iPhone touch screen keyboard is still using the traditional keyboard layout, which is "QWERTY". .
QWERTY keyboard "make me a headache," the 39-year-old Massachusetts Cambridge technology executives say. He wants to do the same thing: the Dvorak keyboard.
Davorak keyboard layout has been born for decades, but were little used. Many of its users are very passionate minority. Davorak of the keyboard, just like the Esperanto of the language, Betamax for the VHS tapes. Davorak fans said, Davorak allows them to fast typing, finger and wrist movements more easily than traditional keyboard. .
Other people don't care about. Historically, the fans to Davorak win respect, they spent several decades before the United States of America Standards Institute (ANSI) was recognized as a QWERTY keyboard Davorak alternative layout position. Now they are experiencing the same issues, emerging smart phone market is also ignored Davorak layout.
QWERTY VS Dvorak. .
Take a look at the Webster's dictionary most frequently used letters in two distribution on the keyboard.
Vermont 30-year-old cartoonist Alec Longstreth do not want to buy a standard keyboard for smart phones. According to his own words, whenever the pop-up QWERTY keyboard phone page ad, he wanted "a fist smashed display." .
Longstreth in College learned Dvorak input. QWERTY keyboard on his input speed to 40 words per minute, use the Dvorak 110 words per minute. "QWERTY has become a new trend on the device, it is a tragedy. ”。.
He and several college students worked in a book called "The Davorak Zine" comic book, praised this keyboard layout, their activities, and other occasions in the comic book distributed in the hope to reverse the people's view. "Someone has to break out of bad situation," he said so. .
In the sixties of the 19th century, when the American inventor Christopher Sholes developed the first modern typewriter, the keyboard layout is in alphabetical order. This is a problem: rapid succession percussion adjacent key typewriter will stall. Sholes subsequently adjust the layout, the most frequently used keys "QWERTY", was born. The term "QWERTY" keyboard is in the upper-left corner of the first 6 keys.
August Dvorak is the University of Washington education professor, spent most of his life to abandon the QWERTY layout on a typewriter industry. 30's, he designed the Dvorak layout, with speed and efficiency as the main consideration. The most commonly used letters such as vowels in the middle row, second commonly used, such as J and K away from the middle of a row. .
Davorak 1932, Professor of the University of Washington, Seattle Museum of history and industry.
Since most of the typing action should be completed in the middle of a row of the keyboard, Dvorak said that his keyboard layout than the traditional typing faster and more naturally, but not many on both the efficiency of research. .
Dvorak Typewriter producing some, but the industry has never abandoned the traditional keyboard. Until start universal personal computers, Dvorak supporters began to be widely use Dvorak layout. The 80 's, Microsoft's Windows users start by third-party programs for Dvorak keyboard, the 1990s, Dvorak began as standard into the operating system.
Now, every computer has a Windows or Apple Dvorak set. .
The user does not need customized keyboard, they only need to change computer settings. Setup is finished, press the key no longer and standard keyboard surface printing letters like match. The user can change the keyboard to match your input, but many users don't do Dvorak, they rely on your memory type.
Until now, most smart phone manufacturers have ignored the needs of Dvorak fans - they want to use your favorite keyboard layout to write messages and send text messages, but do not have to use your own custom layout. .
The 26-year-old Ali Mahmoudzadeh is a Toronto amateur iPhone Developer, he developed a software lets iPhone users can use the Dvorak keyboard layout. But only escaped version of the iPhone, which violates the warranty provisions.
Apple and Palm have declined to comment on. RIM is not answered. Microsoft spokesman said that the task they leave third-party developers, for developers in Windows Mobile cell phones offer Dvorak layout. .
The Dvorak to iPhone, and other product ideas and not been generally accepted. Concerned about the Apple product blog station Macrumors. .com, a member of the friends in the Forum to instigate a Dvorak users write to Apple. Others have no compassion. It was also stated that the "Betamax VCR?" (translation: the irony of the swim Dvorak).
Seattle's typing teacher Linda Lewis in the teaching of two keyboard layout has been 21 years, she said Dvorak school easier, especially for people who have dyslexia. She says she can help students to remember an average of 20 minutes, Dvorak layout, but remember the QWERTY keyboard, you need 45 minutes. However, most of her students choose to learn the standard layout. .
Randy Cassingham has written a book about the history of the book "Dvorak Dvorak keyboard — follow the bioengineering design keyboard, now become the standard in the United States." In his view, Dvorak users as if the crowd of left-handed, need to be respected. In the book, he said: "I'm sorry Dvorak didn't appear in smart phones, but we can only endure. I am a QWERTY Dvorak Typewriter in the world. ”。.
