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.