[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGQTaHGQ04Q[/youtube]
We all know that virtual keyboards are not that great for writing long texts in a short period of time. The fault is not theirs, but their manufacturers', but for the virtual keyboard in Apple's iOS could be implemented a system that could completely improve the experience of using the keyboard. In the video clip above, you have presented the system and it basically boils down to the possibility of moving the writing cursor through gestures made on the virtual keyboard, something impossible to achieve at the moment.
Normally you have to move that cursor by pressing on the screen next to the letter you want to change, but this system simplifies everything by giving us the possibility to control the cursor directly from the keyboard. Unfortunately, it is not known whether or not Apple intends to implement it, but if you want to make it clear to Apple that they should do this, then you can follow the instructions below.
1. Go to bugreport.apple.com, sign in and click "New Problem"
2. Set the title to "Editing Text on iPad (duplicate of rdar://11365152)"
3. Set the product to “iPad,” version number to “N/A,” classification to “Feature (New)” and is it reproducible to “not applicable.”
4. Copy the following letter and paste it in the Problem Details section then click submit
"I just saw Daniel Hooper's iPad keyboard demo and I want that for my iPad! (Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGQTaHGQ04Q) Apple says the iPad is the future of the Post-PC world; if it's going to be my primary keyboard, I want a better way to edit text!
Tapping directly on text to move the cursor works well for small portions of text, but we don't just write short portions of text anymore! When performing lots of edits in larger documents the direct interaction metaphor falls apart for cursor control. Even short portions of text can be painful to edit when you need to move the cursor to a precise location. Would you ever want to write a document on your computer without using the arrow keys? This is the reality iPad users face because they do not have the equivalent of arrow keys.
There is a better way. Take advantage of gestures by making a drag over the keyboard UI to move the cursor. Move the cursor in word increments when dragging with two fingers. And finally, let the user select text while dragging when they hold down shift."
