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But then how do u type a capital D hmm???
You need a different model of Chromebook for that.
That sounds expensive. Can’t you just have a friend with a capital D keyboard email one to you?
How would they email a chromebook? That makes no sense.
That’s piracy and it’s illegal!
You jest, but honestly I think this does make sense. It seems rather obvious to me in hindsight that the character on screen should match the key pressed, and to get a different character should require an activator such as shift or caps lock.
One of those, “If I wasn’t already used to it being the way it is, would I find doing it this way to be better?”
But its not in the font I’m typing in. What bullshit.
You could always get a keyboard like this. It’s a large LCD screen with transparent keys on top, so you can program each key to display whatever you want- keys change between lower and upper case when you press shift, for example, or have the font displayed on each key be whatever you want.
I was sooo close to purchasing one of those (Optimus Maximus), but realized that it would be too dependent on software from a minor actor, so I decided to wait a few years until the functionality got standard on all keyboards.
From what I remember (the Maximus has since been discontinued) it wasn’t a very practical keyboard, mostly because all the key caps were completely flat so it was uncomfortable to type in.
I’m pretty sure letters are capital by default because capitals are easier to read
I’ll hold by breath for them to switch the default keyboard to Dvorak
I feels like, while it makes sense, but the “sense” here is sorta nonsense, the way they write the header sorta assume people is incapable of learning and adjust. Even my nephew/niece learn it without issue.
Now that I think about it, given that lower case is the default option for typing, it would make more sense for the letters to be lower case.
It took me way too long to realise the keys on my keyboard are uppercase. Is this really something people worry about? What happens when I want a capital letter, do I need a different Google keyboard?!
I’m sure someone somewhere is happy with themselves.
I have used a keyboard that had uppercase and lowercase on the keys, similar to how the number row looks with its shift-for-punctuation. It was harder to read, so I didn’t like it very much.
On most on screen keyboards, the casing changes as you type for things like the first letter. It’s a good way to indicate that in a UI, but it’s only necessary because the screen keyboard is trying to change the casing for you. All physical keyboards I’ve used type the same thing when you push a button, regardless of the context.
If you asked me, before this, if my keys were capital or lowercase, I don’t think I could have told you.
It’s such a non-issue, also having larger and more defined characters on the keycaps also helps people with poor eyesight and the older population.
I looked at my keyboard after reading it because I had to check.
I had to Google ‘MacBook keyboard’ to work it out lol
I had to actually check my keyboard to find out myself.
However, when I press the uppercase keys for ASDF a lowercase aoeu shows up on my computers - looking at the key symbols have been useless for me for years.
I feel drunk reading this. I genuinely can’t even make sense of what they’re trying to say here.
I imagine this makes perfect sense to people who are not tech savy, which is the primary demographic for selling a laptop that’s basically an iPad.
Then again, I know 94-year olds capable of grasping the concept of SHIFT and CAPS LOCK. So yeah, drunk marketing statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
Shift came from typewriters. It literally shifted the mechanism over so the keys would trigger a different set of hammers.
And the first typewriter came out in 1868. So this was already old tech by the time that 94 year old was born.
Yeah, which is why there is no way to explain the original post other than being the ramblings of a madman.
My chromebook doesn’t have capslock
I would sincerely hope this is satire
How come when I press the key with an “up arrow” on it that symbol doesn’t appear on screen?
Or when I press space space doesn’t appear on my screen where are the stars sundar where are the stars 🌟
Or when I press tab I don’t get a discontinued diet soda?
No time for that now, the computer’s starting!
That’s on you. You should have gotten a Chromebook.
If they really wanted to innovate like this, why not have LED key caps that change from lowercase to uppercase when the shift key is pressed? Much cooler than just lowercase caps printed on the keys by default.
Very cool, and much more expensive than printed keys. Would be neat if they offered one model like that. I still wouldn’t buy it but I’d sure talk about how neat it is.
Wow it’s been a while since www.artlebedev.com/optimus was proposed - didn’t their prototype get quite hot?
That’s pretty neat!
Characters are harder to find when they are dim if people actually need them marked.
Some UX is sitting really proudly somewhere, glad his work was featured in the google blog
Just reminded me of the Optimus Maximus keyboard. Dreamed of having one when it was announced.
So cool, the possibilities are endless for something like that. I’d love to see something similar actually make it into production.
What happens when AI replaces the marketing department.
I knew google was retarded but wtf. Was anyone actually proud about this?
Also the phrasing is so clunky and awkward I had to read it a good three or four times before I worked out what the fuck they were talking about. Initially I thought they were claiming the letters on the keyboard changed between lower and upper case depending on whether shift or caps was depressed. Obviously not, I don’t even know how you’d do that. Written by ‘ai’ perhaps ?
Get used to it, AI is cheap and almost good enough. Lots of unemployed people incoming.
They really are just a large company these days. This probably flew completely under the radar until it was published and someone saw it displayed to them.
Imagine the keys would become capital when pressing the shift key
I once saw advertised a keyboard that had little screens in each of the keycaps. This was over ten years ago. I haven’t seen it tried since.
That would be the Optimus keyboard. I heard it’s really prone to failing.
Finalmouse and Flux keyboards are in the works.
Someone suggested that to me because I use Dvorak. Checked it out. I’m not paying over a grand for a keyboard, and when I checked the reviews, once you get past the gimmick, it’s not really a very good keyboard anyway.
Would dvorak be an excuse for one of those legendless keyboards?
You mean, blank keycaps? Sure, if you want… Not like you’d be able to use any of the letter keys as printed anyway.
Btw, at least with mechanicals, you can get replacement keycaps and they sell blank ones, would be a lot cheaper than springing for a Das Keyboard
If you hammer nails into your head it will hurt like a bitch. But Chromebooks are different - we will also murder a puppy.
Ha, the ß on my keyboard is lowercase.
I press “esc” but nothing happened. 0/10 literally unusable.
WHAT?
