On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:53:09PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Please don't top post on this mailing list. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray > > > > (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > > Is the iPhone really that bad? Is proofreading not even possible? The problem with mobile devices is the auto-correct function of the keyboards. With a full, physical keyboard, it's fairly easy to feel when you've "fat-fingered" a key and pressed the wrong one. With a touch-screen, you lose that immediate feedback, so mis-typing is somewhat easier. As a result, the soft-keyboards tend to auto-correct what you type, so that if you typed "drvoan", it would correct that to "Debian" (by looking at keys near what you typed and mapping that into a dictionary). The problem comes when the auto-correct is either too sensitive (and corrects a valid, but rare, word into something else) or simply when the user doesn't review the text, and you get sentences like "We apologise for the incontinence". > > -- > "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people > who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the > oppressing." --- Malcolm X > -- For more information, please reread.
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