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A delete key really speeds up text editing, and is not confusing if put next to the "erase" with an arrow on each.

For what it is worth, Fn-Erase is mapped to delete. --18.85.18.88 17:59, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

keyboard layout

This is the apple laptops keyboard behaviour: fn+backspace = delete, and also fn+up/left/right/down = pgup/home/end/pgdown. This is perfect! It's really great you chose such layout, I think that every sane laptop user who has worked on an apple laptop for more than a while will miss the way it's keyboard works. It's virtually impossible to use pgup/down/home/end FAST on today's laptops where each one of them has slightly differently working keyboard. Apple-go-ISO!

That's an awkward two-handed operation. Why should I need to hold the Fn key down when I just want to page through a web page? Lack of a real delete key is even worse.
Since we have a limited physical area to put keys, and we cannot make the keys arbitrarily small, then we need to make choices about what is a one-handed operation vs. a two-handed operation. You recommend page down and delete be one-hand operations. What do you recommend moving to a two-handed operation? --Walter 21:33, 6 August 2007 (EDT)

keycap glyphs

Have the US International keycap glyphs been finalised yet? If so could we link to that design from here please? If not, can I put forward the case for lower case alpha glyphs as being most suited to early years of literacy? --82.153.74.212 18:46, 12 November 2007 (EST)