{"id":9767,"date":"2014-10-09T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2014-10-09T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:44:37","slug":"schroedingers-shift-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/09\/schroedingers-shift-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Schr&ouml;dinger&rsquo;s Shift Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2014\/schrodingers-shift-key\/\">Allen Pike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2014\/schrodingers-shift-key\/\"><p>When the shift key is on, it blends in with the letter keys. When it&rsquo;s off, it blends in with the function keys. Neither state sticks out enough to read as active, especially in a split second.<\/p>\n<p>This would only be moderately annoying, except that iOS suddenly engages the shift key in certain circumstances. It&rsquo;s usually convenient, but if you need to type <em>apike is my username, I am from B.C. and live in Vancouver<\/em> it&rsquo;s crazy-making and requires good feedback about what&rsquo;s happening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/09\/30\/pike-shift-key\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/09\/30\/pike-shift-key\"><p>Single most surprising thing about iOS 8 to me is that Apple didn&rsquo;t fix this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjtsai\/statuses\/517781259729510401\">concur<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Pike: When the shift key is on, it blends in with the letter keys. When it&rsquo;s off, it blends in with the function keys. Neither state sticks out enough to read as active, especially in a split second. This would only be moderately annoying, except that iOS suddenly engages the shift key in certain [&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":[31,904,423],"class_list":["post-9767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-keyboard"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767","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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}