The QWERTY layout is, I grant you, an illogical mess. I'm happy to hear your arguments that Dvorak is the one true way. Or that Colemak is several percent faster. But QWERTY is a standard now. Everyone uses it on their laptops and phones. It is used everywhere. Except, it turns out, streaming services. They [...]

I’ve written a blog post about the most important technological issue of our time - why every streaming service has its own weird keyboard.

  • lupuchard@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I disagree. If you touch type you often only know where keys are through muscle memory, and existing muscle memory is not particularly useful when changing the entry method (I have to mime typing to remember where keys are on a keyboard). Alphabetic works well because you don’t need to know any particular layout to know where keys are going to be, and I think makes a good standard for remote-controlled interfaces