Comments on: That keyboard has to go!

By: Maraklov

Maraklov — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:28:25 +0000

SuperDuperCruizer – the full size keyboard does wrap around, but its not continuous. If you hold down in a direction it will move across and stop at the end of the line, but if you move again in that same direction it will wrap to the other side. It’s subtle but its there. I agree it might be better to scroll continuously for the advantages of speed. I haven’t tried this with the new YouTube keyboard.

By: SuperDuperCruizer

SuperDuperCruizer — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:23:12 +0000

It would have been nice if the default keyboard had a wrap-around feature on the top, bottom & left side of the layout. Obviously, the right side of the keyboard layout would remain the same to allow the user to move the cursor to select videos found in a search. Why apple engineers couldn’t foresee a need for this during product testing is beyond me.

By: joshdill

joshdill — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0000

It would seem to me that Apple could easily develop an IR keyboard to work with the ATV just like the remote does now. As a general rule, I can’t stand on-screen keyboards. Fluffy brings up a good example with the Playstation 3, though I find the “keyboard” on the Nintendo Wii to be even better at predictive text. Still, nothing beats a physical keyboard.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:34:57 +0000

I really like the text entry mechanism on the Playstation 3: there are a few keyboards to choose from (qwerty, cellphone) for gamepad-typing, both of them support various forms of predictive text entry, and, of course, you can also hook up a USB keyboard if you’re typing a lot.

By: University Update - YouTube - That keyboard has to go!

University Update - YouTube - That keyboard has to go! — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:12:00 +0000

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