On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
On 11/30/2011 05:03 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
I'm quite intrigued by the on-screen keyboard
for the Narayam input
method.
I haven't seen it in action, but the
screenshots look nice -- it's
showing
what chars would get typed and you can click on
them directly or use it
as
a guide for the physical keyboard. Sweet!
When editing Wikipedia articles or proofreading in Wikisource,
the number of possible character sets that you can want to
pick characters from makes it hard to design a nice user interface.
I think it could help if the characters in the existing article
were used.
For example, when editing an article on Moscow, if Cyrillic
names of suburbs are mentioned in the article, the Cyrillic
characters would appear in the editing interface (but not
Greek, Arabic or Japanese).
+1 context-sensitivity can be a big help in these things.
Detecting presence of certain languages on the page and making sure their
special keyboards or symbols are available (but not in your way until you
need them) would be a big assistance for working on some pages!
-- brion