I think that there’s US International layout on Windows with dead keys that exists for that reason? Or is that annoying in practice?

(I would guess the hold-a-letter interaction took over a lot of the previous casual ⌥ dead keys use, though.)

Thanks! I added a quick fyi

I just didn’t feel it’s a huge difference from Windows, which also has (traditional) dead keys. What do you think?

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I used the C64! Although I was more of an Atari 800 guy.

Alas, this font recreation appears to be poor quality AI slop.

This whole website is great.

Cats of Taiwan, pt. 3

Yeah, I’m always very worried since design tools shouldn’t just rely on CSS here (I don’t consider CSS well designed, plus its requirements and medium are very different!), but any time they do something else than CSS it comes, as you hinted at, with consequences.

Oh, also there’s this ongoing CSS confusion on whether % is of the item or of the parent. fr avoids that confusion.

(Also, it’s easier to type 1fr than 100%.)

1fr seemed like a better text-entry user interface in that when you have many items, you don’t have to re-normalize them to add to 100% every single time you make a change. (Plus, if it exists in grid, people might naturally expect it elsewhere.)

We actually debated doing this at Figma when I was there, too.

Cats of Taiwan, pt. 2

Cats of Taiwan, pt. 1

@joshuagraves.me Spotted in Taipei

Oh, interesting! Strange that they went as far as doing this, but still didn’t solve some more rudimentary things I posted.