How awesome is Snow Leopard? Like, so awesome, right? Hold onto your hats, friends, because it just got awesomer: check out that virtual keyboard!
Two big Mac sites, 9 to 5 Mac and Cult of Mac, are now running with the story that, since the new virtual keyboard is so big and fluffy, it’s obviously a sign that Snow Leopard can truly be a proper touchscreen operating system. You know, for that Mac tablet that everyone keeps talking about. Endlessly.
It’s not too big a stretch, I guess. Look at the old virtual keyboard:
Rubbish, yes.
I don’t know. For whatever reason I’m not too keen on all this touchscreen stuff. It’s going to take an extra special Steve Jobs “…and one more thing” announcement to change my opinion. Not that any of you care, of course, which is how it should be. Just sayin’.
So big you can’t actually see the app you’re using behind it. How is that useful?
LOL. You are joking right? LOL.
The keyboard is resizable. I could see that being useful, since you could more easily see what’s behind it by reducing the size somewhat.
Maybe it is just an accessibility thing? As someone who runs 120DPI and 16 point font on almost every app, a nice, large on screen keyboard in certain circumstances would be nice.
my brother has been playing around with it the past few days. Whether or not it’s intention is to be used for a touch tablet, it’s definitely convenient to have. http://ziggytek.com/
This can’t be it – the virtual keyboard for the tablet is clearly marked with the word “Keyboard”
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/26/the-ipad-revealed-purported-screenshots-of-the-apple-tablet-os/
Onscreen keyboard?
So you sit there waving your arms around in front of you for a few seconds and then realising that this new fitness regime is too much effort so you go back to the normal keyboard…cool…