Yep, I tend to agree that a server side solution would suck in this
sense for similar reasons. I suppose the reason you are thinking about
this is you still miss your querty keyboard. I used to think that anyone
entering anything on that silly phone keyboard was mad. In fact I would
avoid it like the plague... One day, I got this mail from Andrea that she
had sent me from her phone. I was totally impressed by the fact that she
had typed it all in. Since then, I began to give it a shot myself and lately
to my supprise, I'm getting faster and can nearly blind type the thing. I
think Ren put it nicely with his chopstick/fork imagery in an earlier post.
On the other hand, client side auto-thought completion might be a cool idea!!!
Cheers,
Tom.
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:15:40PM +0900, Jonathan Shore wrote:
>
> Could have a series of characters as images or text where each character
> would POST to the server indicating the character event and return with the
> same page changing the destination text field to include the appended
> character.
>
> This technique would be slow, not to mention expensive due to the roundtrip
> and html load each time a character is pressed. Think typing with the
> keypad has got to be faster.
>
> I created a virtual keyboard (client-side) for another device recently.
> Unfortunately my code won't be useful without javascript. I wouldn't even
> think of doing it server side as sketched above due to the time and expense
> (packet charges).
>
> JS
> E-Publishing Group
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
> > [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Nick May
> > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:53 PM
> > To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> > Subject: (keitai-l) virtual keyboard....
> >
> >
> > This is a general coding question - but an answer would be useful to
> > all....
> >
> > Can anyone think of a way to create a virtual qwerty keyboard on screen
> > that would use *entirely server side resources*?
> >
> > One would twiddle the pointer knob and click to select the letter one
> > wanted.... a LOT faster than the keypad for typing e-mail in English..
> > (with the phone on its side would be best)
> >
> > Easy enough with javascript, easy enough with java - but neither are
> > available to the client.
> >
> > regards Nick
> >
> > (Hush! Don't mention it to Amazon - they will try and patent the "one
> > click keyboard")
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Received on Thu Oct 5 16:34:28 2000