{"id":4776,"date":"2012-05-05T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T21:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2012-05-05T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:45:52","slug":"ipad-keyboard-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/ipad-keyboard-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Keyboard Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started using iOS&rsquo;s on-screen keyboard, it was a revelation just how much I missed the arrow keys and modifiers (for moving by word or by line and changing the selection). Apple eventually added support for text selection and cut\/copy\/paste, with an interface that&rsquo;s intuitive but very slow. Text entry and editing remain so unpleasant that I do them as little as possible, waiting until I&rsquo;m back at the Mac and its real keyboard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RGQTaHGQ04Q\">Daniel Hooper<\/a> created a demo showing how the iPad&rsquo;s keyboard could be improved (via <a href=\"http:\/\/5by5.tv\/hypercritical\/66\">John Siracusa<\/a>). His idea is to use the keyboard as a gesture area, swiping left and right to move the cursor or change the selection. This looks like a promising approach.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started using iOS&rsquo;s on-screen keyboard, it was a revelation just how much I missed the arrow keys and modifiers (for moving by word or by line and changing the selection). Apple eventually added support for text selection and cut\/copy\/paste, with an interface that&rsquo;s intuitive but very slow. Text entry and editing remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}