Fight to Remove Caps Key from Standard Computer Keyboard
There is a pretty strange battles going on in the computer hardware industry. The fight is about removing the Caps Lock button on a standard computer keyboard and has the Caps Lock key retired permanently.
The group’s mission is to awaken the public and get them to seriously think about the precious keyboard real estate that is so unfairly utilized by the (nearly) worthless uppercasing shortcut.
As the Internet’s most comprehensive website that covers news and reviews about keyboards, Compkeyboard.com website insists that that although we seldom use the Caps Key in our regular typing activity, we should not remove the Caps Key unless we can find a more suitable key to replace this key which is in very good position on QWERTY keyboard design.
via Engadget
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January 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
The cap lock key has never been a problem. What really frustrates me is the microsoft key(s) that lies between the control and alt keys that I continually mis-hit as some programs make extensive use of the alt and control keys.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I’m looking at my Dell laptop and before I reliquish my rarely used caps lock I would give up: The microsoft key, Alt Gr, Num Lock and Fn as I don’t know what any of thise do.
Also, I have found that even the first two lessons of a typing course will pay huge dividends with mis-hits.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Although thecaps lock should not be removed, it should not be in the positon it is in now. I recently did a project on keyboards, and asked at least thirty people what problems they had with the keyboard, there wasn’t a single person who didn’t say “I always hit the caps lock key on accident.” Although this may not be a problem for touch typists, it is extremely annoying for people who aren’t to look up and see that three lines of text is all in caps, with no way to change it back but to re-type all of it.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I haev been working on just biulding a keyboard for myself that uses two switchs in each key so that if you hit the key harder it does a capital instead of a normal letter so you can get ride of caps key and the shift key, but so far I haven’t got a complete working keyboard to work like this.
September 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I”M ALL IN FAVOUR OF THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPS KEY. MAINLY BECAUSE IT WOULD HINDER THE IDIOT POSTERS WHO WRITE HARD-TO-READ AND APPARENTLY ‘SHOUTED’ REPLIES LIKE THIS ONE. ER… LIKE ME.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:46 am
I realize there are alot of people who never use the caps lock key. But when programming C it can be invaluable when dealing with global constants or macros, that are labeled in caps. It will be a loss not having a caps lock key in those cases. They should however consider changing it to a different location of the keyboard.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:36 am
WHAT?! no way, other people do thi? ive been doing this for years, and other people in my course and work have copied me doing this.. i never knew anyone else did this hahahaha…
January 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
The best solution I’ve seen so far came with my Toshiba laptop where the Caps Lock key itself lights up when it’s on. The stupid thing in my opinion is not to have a useful Caps Lock key, but to place the warning light at the opposite end of the keyboard and almost invisible.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:41 am
YOU FUCKIN NERD–GET A LIFE AND A GIRLFRIEND. AND A JOB, WHILE UR AT IT, SO YOU CAN GET OUT UR MOMS BASEMENT! U FOOLS ARE REALLY WAAAY TOO DEEP INTO THIS SHIT. A BAN AGAINST CAPS? ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME!? TRY SOLVING REAL ISSUES, LIKE STOPPING VIRUSES OR SPAM. FOCUS, MOTHERFUCKER–FOCUS!!!
CAPS DPNT MEAN ANYTHING AND IF YOUVE EVER HAD A REAL CONVERSATION OUTSIDE OF A CHATROOM, YOUD REALIZE THAT THIS SITE DOESNT MATTER. GET THE FUCK OVER URSELF!!
November 7th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Our company regularly uses CAPS as everything entered into our EPR system and on our drawings is always in caps. We use caps-lock so often that some users actually make their network password all caps so they don’t have to turn caps off.
As a programmer, I make all comments in my code in caps.
Maybe the key can be moved to a different position, but it is necessary. Over the course of a couple months, I’d say I use every key on a standard keyboard, except for the Scroll-lock, NumLock (I keep it ON) and F-keys, of which I use only F1, F5 and F6. And yes, even the Break/Pause key gets used debugging scripts.
February 6th, 2009 at 6:33 am
I”ve been using all the key’s on my keyboard. Although i don’t use the caps lock very often I never press it by mistake. Also what will you put there? Whatever you put it will be accidentely pressed. It is a problem with people writing on the keyboards not with the caps lock. Every key on the keyboard have its uses. The problem is that people haven’t learned to use the keys. The right Windows key for example is one of the buttons i use very often. Even more then the F keys. Perhaps the most unuseful keys are the Scroll Lock and Pause Break. If something must be removed it must be that buttons not Caps lock
March 10th, 2009 at 4:02 am
very nice info here. happy to read it.
April 24th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
well i hate the button in between ctl and alt i dont really care about caps lock
November 18th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
hey well i dont like caps lock it is soooooo anoying
November 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
fuck ur bloody self cauze ur sooooooooooooooooo gay!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
HEY NERD TRY TO INVENT A COMPUTER WITHOUT CAPSLOCK CAUZE CAPSLOCK IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GAY AND GO FUCK THE FUCKIN CAPS LOCK MOTHER FUCKERS.
June 15th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
thumbs up for the new post. This was really revealing.
October 2nd, 2010 at 1:43 pm
MAKE A KEYBOARD WITHOUT THE CAPS KEY AND SEE IF ANYONE BUYS IT.
October 6th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
For the life of me, I can not think of 1 good reason for the caps lock key.
Now that coding has done away with capital letters in tag identifiers, the caps lock key seems only there for those backwards people that do not know how to use the two shift keys. Get thee to a Community or Junior college, or even a High School Adult Learning class and learn.
And while we are at it, why don’t we just dump the QWERTY keyboard anyway.
The Dvorak keyboard has less chance of carpel tunnel, less errors, and typing is fun again with most used keys on the home row,and it was developed in the 20′s to 1930′s.
Once again, the caps lock key can only cause hard feelings if used accidentally and now has NO redeeming value.