51. But the arrow keys are tiny, and the regular keys are so flat that they encourage errors. 52. For instance, my daughters played Aqua Reptar, steering a toddler-laden raft down a river by using the arrow keys on the keyboard. 53. In the early days of personal computing, some users huffily insisted that arrow keys were more than enough, so who needed that goofy mouse? 54. The arrow keys let you highlight a show. 55. The inverted-T format of the arrow keys was chosen for its efficiency. 56. The keyboard adds arrow keys for the left hand, but also repositions the right-handed navigational keys and makes the Alt and Ctrl keys annoyingly small. 57. You navigate by using the arrows keys and the Tab, Enter and space keys to move around and select links on the pages. |